Table 1.
First author (year) | Country; recruitment sources | Study participants | Intervention; prevention level | Comparison | Outcomes (measures) |
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Antonson (2018) | Sweden; two secondary schools | Upper secondary school students; aged 15–19 years; 70.3% female | Internet-based self-help mindfulness-based program accessible through computers, smartphones, and tablets; Universal prevention | Wait-list | Stress (14-item Perceived Stress Scale) |
Bonnert (2017) | Sweden; primary, secondar,y and tertiary care clinics | Adolescents diagnosed irritable bowel syndrome; aged 13–17 years; 61.0% female | Internet-delivered cognitive behavior therapy; selective prevention | Wait-list |
Anxiety (Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale) Stress (10-item Perceived Stress Scale) |
De Voogd (2016a)_1 | Netherlands; 14 regular high schools | Students in the 1st to 6th grade of high schools; aged 11–18 years; 57.6% female | Online attentional bias modification training (visual search attention training, dot-probe attention training); universal prevention | Placebo (visual search placebo, dot-probe placebo) |
Anxiety (Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders) Depression (Children’s Depression Inventory) |
De Voogd (2016b)_2 | The Netherlands; 14 regular high schools | High school students; aged 11–18 years; 60.1% female | Online emotional working memory training; universal prevention | Placebo |
Anxiety (Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders) Depression (Children’s Depression Inventory) |
De Voogd (2018) | The Netherlands; 14 regular high schools | Students in the 1st to 6th grade of high schools; aged 11–19 years; 60.7% female | Online interpretation bias modification training; universal prevention | Placebo |
Anxiety (Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders) Depression (Children’s Depression Inventory) |
Duan (2017) | China; one university | Undergraduate students; aged 17–24 years; 71.1% female | Web-based multiple health behavior intervention for physical activity and fruit and vegetable intake based on health action process approach; universal prevention | No intervention | Depression (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression) |
Fang (2010) | USA; Asian community service agencies in 19 states with significant Asian populations | Asian–American adolescent girls; aged 11–14 years; all females | Web-based Mother-Daughter program (family-oriented substance use prevention program based on family interaction theory); universal prevention | No intervention | Depression (Children’s Depression Inventory) |
Greene (2012) | USA; eight universities | Undergraduate students of freshmen, sophomores, and juniors; aged 18–24 years; 63% female | Online healthful eating and physical activity program; universal prevention | Wait-list |
Stress (12-item General Health Questionnaire) |
Kattelmann (2014) | USA; 13 college campuses | College student; aged 18–24 years; 67.2% female | Web-delivered Young Adults Eating and Active for Health program; universal prevention | Wait-list | Stress (14-item Perceived Stress Scale) |
Law (2015) | USA; a headache clinic | Adolescents with recurrent headache; aged 11–17 years; 81.9% female | Internet-delivered family-based cognitive behavioral therapy program with headache treatment; selective prevention | Headache treatment |
Anxiety (Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale, Second Edition) Depression (Children’s Depression Inventory) |
Levin (2014) | USA; two local university and community college campuses, as well as advertisements in the local school newspapers and school websites | Undergraduate first-year students; aged 18–20 years; 53.9% female | Web-based acceptance and commitment therapy prevention program; universal prevention | Wait-list |
Anxiety (7-item subscale assessing anxiety of the 21-item version of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale) Depression (7-item subscale assessing depression of the 21-item version of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale) Stress (7-item subscale assessing stress of the 21-item version of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale) |
Newcombe (2012) | Australia; a respiratory outpatient clinic | Children and adolescents with a chronic respiratory condition; aged 10–17 years; 51.3% female | Internet-based problem-solving program; selective prevention | Wait-list | Depression (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale for Children) |
O’Dea (2020) | Australia; advertisement on Facebook campaign targeting young people | adolescents; aged 12–16 years; 86.5% female | Relationship-focused mobile phone application based on cognitive behavioral therapy and social learning theory; universal prevention | Wait-list |
Anxiety (Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale) Depression (Patient Health Questionnaire for Adolescents) |
Palermo (2009) | USA; multidisciplinary pediatric pain clinic, pediatric neurology clinic, and pediatric gastroenterology clinic at an academic health center | Children and adolescents with chronic pain; aged 11–17 years; 72.9% female | Internet-delivered family cognitive behavioral therapy intervention; selective prevention | Wait-list |
Depression (Major depressive disorder subscale of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale) |
Puolakanaho (2019) | Finland; two municipalities in Central Finland | Ninth-grade adolescents; aged 15–16 years; 49.0% female | Web- and mobile-delivered program based on acceptance and commitment therapy; universal prevention | Usual support from school | Stress (Single-item measure assessing overall stress) |
Ruggiero (2015) | USA; two regions that sustained severe impact from tornadoes | Adolescents affected by devastating tornadoes; aged 12–17 years; 51.0% female | Web-based intervention for disaster-affected adolescents and parents; selective prevention | No intervention |
Depression (National Survey of Adolescents Depression module) |
Schwinn (2014) | USA; publicly subsidized housing | Adolescent girls lived in publicly subsidized housing; aged 10–12 years; all females | Web-based, family-involvement health promotion program; selective prevention | No intervention | Stress (6-item Perceived Stress Scale) |
Whittaker (2017) | New Zealand; 15 secondary schools | Attending years 9–12 at participating schools; aged 13–17 years; 68.0% female | Mobile phone-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy-based program; universal prevention | Placebo |
Depression (Children’s Depression Rating Scale-Revised) |
Williamson (2019) | UK; primary care practices and charities | Adolescents with appearance-affecting conditions experiencing appearance-related distress, teasing or bullying; aged 12–17 years; 74.5% females | Web-based self-help psychosocial intervention integrating cognitive behavioral therapy and social skills training; selective prevention | Usual care | Social anxiety (22-item Social Anxiety Scale) |