Development of a screening program for depressive symptoms in schoolchildren which can be used daily and continuously at school.

• Project/Area Number: 20590635
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Public health/Health science
• Research Institution: Saitama University
• Principal Investigator: TAKEUCHI Kazuo Saitama University, 教育学部, 教授 (60251089)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SEKI Yukiko 埼玉大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (30342687)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): KASAI Naomi 新潟大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (20255243)
• Project Period (FY): 2008 – 2010
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2010)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2008: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
• Keywords: 学校 / 児童生徒 / うつ状態

Research Abstract

With brief self-administered questionnaires for schoolchildren (Brief Mood Control Index for Children) and short checklists for school teachers (Brief Checklist of Depressive Symptoms among Children for Teachers), a new screening program was carried out to find out depressive children and adolescents in school. The agreement between the two measures was quite low (kappa= .095) and sensitivity of both measures to screen depression in the subjects were not high. However, after adopting a new criteria of 'being positive in at least one of the two', the total sensitivity increases slightly (.529). Now this program is available at school.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Annual transition of major depressive episode in university students using a structured self-rating questionnaire. (2010)
  • Author(s): Toru Uehara, Kazuo Takeuchi, Fumio Kubota, Kihachi Oshima, Osamu Ishikaw
  • Journal Title: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry 2 Pages: 99-104
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 児童生徒のインターネット、テレビゲーム依存傾向尺度の構成と小学生から高校生にかけての依存傾向尺度値の横断的変化 (2010)
  • Author(s): 戸部秀之、堀田美枝子、竹内一夫
  • Journal Title: 埼玉大学紀要 59 Pages: 181-199
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] 丸善出版 (2011)
  • Author(s): 大澤清二、笠井直美、國土将平、竹内一夫、辻和男、平山宗宏、村田光範、赤坂守人、鈴木和弘、宇津見義一
  • Organizer: 学校と家庭で育む子どもの生活習慣
  • Place of Presentation: 3-5, 98-113
• [Presentation] 杏林書院 (2010)
  • Author(s): 大澤清二、鈴木和弘、竹内一夫、柿山哲治、小磯透、永井大樹
  • Organizer: 学校保健の世界
  • Place of Presentation: 57-56, 70-77, 84-87, 106, 184
• [Presentation] 日本学校保健会 (2009)
  • Author(s): 竹内一夫, ほか
  • Organizer: 平成20年度版学校保健の動向
  • Place of Presentation: 55-59
• [Presentation] 日本学校保健会 (2009)
  • Author(s): 大澤清二、笠井直美、國土将平、竹内一夫、辻和男、平山宗宏、村田光範
  • Organizer: 平成20年度児童生徒の健康状態サーベイランス事業報告書
• [Book] 学校と家庭では育む子どもの生活習慣 (2011)
  • Author(s): 日本学校保健会(編)
  • Total Pages: 152
  • Publisher: 丸善出版