FACTORES QUE PREDICEN LA EFICACIA DE DIFERENTES TRATAMIENTOS PARA LA DEPRESIÓN LEVE O DISFORIA

Abstract

Factors which predict the effectiveness of different treatments of slight depression or dysphoria. The research on depression indicate different predictive factors for development of depressive behaviour. In spite of this, cognitive-behavioural treatment is being applied to the general population of depressive subjects. In this study, two groups were formed from a sample of 236 mild depressive or dysphoric adolescents: the "cognitive dysphoric" group, composed of subjects with depressive attributional style, and the "behavioural dysphoric" group, constituted by subjects with deficient social behaviour. We used these two groups to compare the effectiveness of applying a treatment matched with the type of dysphoria and a non-matched treatment. The ANOVA results indicate that the treatment matched with the type of dysphoria is more effective than the non-matched treatment.