The effect of internet-based cognitive behavior therapy MoodGYM on adolescents and college students with depression symptoms: a Meta-analysis / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To evaluate the effect of internet-based cognitive behavior therapy MoodGYM on adolescents and college students with depression symptoms through Meta-analysis. Methods Databases as Web of Science, PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase, Chinese Biomedical Database, China National Knowledge Internet and Wanfang were searched from their establishment to January 2017 for collecting randomized controlled trails and clinical controlled trails about MoodGYM for adolescents and college students with depression symptoms. Two reviewers independently selected studies,extracted data and assessed risk of bias.RevMan 5.3 software was used to perform Meat-analysis. Results Seven studies involving 1 632 participants were included.The results of Meta-analysis showed that the score of depression, anxiety and negative automatic thoughts in MoodGYM arm was lower than control arm, the statistic results: standardized mean difference=-0.45, 95% CI-0.82--0.07, P=0.02;mean difference=-7.36,95% CI-11.88--2.85,P=0.001;mean difference=-18.06,95% CI-26.44--9.68, P<0.01, the difference between experiment arm and control arm was significant. Conclusions MoodGYM can contribute to improve depression, anxiety and negative automatic thought of adolescents and college students. This intervention should be further examined by high-quality, large-sample randomized controlled trails.