Filip Smit

..Furthermore, the short version could be as effective as the long version...

..The aim of this study was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a new treatment alternative, internet-delivered CBT based on exposure and mindfulness exercises...

..Therefore, there is a need for preventive interventions which are at once effective, acceptable and economic affordable...

..There is no knowledge about the opportunities for using the internet to prevent problems in children at risk. In the current study we will focus on the (cost-) effectiveness of an online health prevention program for COPMI-children...

..Given its high prevalence and the fact that interventions are necessary during the remitted phase, new approaches are needed to prevent relapse in depression...

..Moreover, few cost-of-illness studies used population-based psychiatric surveys for estimating direct medical, direct non-medical and indirect costs, and were able to do so for several well diagnosed mental disorders...

..Anxiety disorders in older people are highly prevalent, yet there is little evidence to guide targeted prevention strategies...

..To identify target groups for prevention of chronic or recurrent depression in old age such that prevention is likely to become cost-effective...

..In the light of our findings and given the burden of panic disorder, such a new trial is well worth the effort. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN33407455...

..Little is known about the cost-effectiveness of preventing mental disorders...

..From the public health perspective, depression prevention may be an attractive, if not imperative, means to generate health gains and reduce future costs...

..To study the role of cannabis use in the onset of symptoms and disorders in the schizophrenia spectrum...

..To study the role of cannabis use in the onset of symptoms and disorders in the schizophrenia spectrum...

..Informing policy decisions about the cost-effectiveness of health care systems (ie, packages of clinical interventions) is probably best done using a modeling approach. To this end, an alcohol model (ALCMOD) was developed...

..Given the existing economic constraints, prevention of depression has to be carefully targeted, and applied where it is likely to yield the highest possible health benefits at the lowest possible cost...

..The impact of spousal bereavement on mental health varies among the widowed. More information is needed on factors influencing bereavement outcome...

..The question now is whether certain groups of problem drinkers benefit more from such Web-based interventions than others...

..Data on the societal costs of mental disorders are necessary to inform health policies...

..Primary prevention of secondary disorders in populations with a history of a primary disorder are important for reducing psychiatric burden...

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..In a randomized controlled trial (referred to here as DL-RCT), DL has been shown effective in reducing risky alcohol consumption...

..To test the effectiveness of a television-supported self-help intervention for problem drinking...

..Despite a growing understanding of the effectiveness of bereavement interventions and the groups that benefit most from them, we know little about the cost-effectiveness of bereavement interventions...

..To investigate the hypothesis that changes in cannabis prevalence among Dutch secondary school students (aged 12-17 years) were paralleled by shifts in the age of first cannabis use...

..A meta-analysis was performed to examine the overall effectiveness of brief, single-session personalized-feedback interventions without therapeutic guidance...

..To evaluate the effectiveness of two preventive interventions to reduce heavy drinking in first- and second-year high school students. Design and..

..In order to quantify the effectiveness of family interventions in reducing adolescent drinking, we conducted a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials...

..Furthermore, it has been hypothesized that mortality rates in depressed men are higher than in depressed women. Finally, it is not clear if the increased mortality rates exist only in major depression or also in subclinical depression...

..Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) among the general adult population, however, are scarce. The present study offers an RCT of Drinktest.nl, an online personalized feedback intervention in the Netherlands...

..Sub-threshold depression is a prognostic variable for major depression. Interventions in sub-threshold depression may prevent the onset of new cases of major depression...

..The aim of the present study is to identify target groups at increased risk of developing depression in early adolescence, such that prevention is associated with the largest health benefit at population-level for the least effort...

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..Self-help interventions for adult problem drinkers in the general population have proved effective. The question is whether this also holds for self-help interventions delivered over the internet...

..However, a replication of effectiveness studies of the well-defined protocols is now warranted...

..To assess the effectiveness of reminiscence and life review on late-life depression across different target groups and treatment modalities...

..These effects support the widespread adoption and implementation of Triple P that is taking place in an increasing number of countries in quite diverse cultural contexts around the world...