abstract: 'Certain subgroups of youth are at high risk for depression and elevated

  depressive symptoms, and experience limited access to quality mental

  health care. Examples are socioeconomically disadvantaged, racial/

  ethnic minority, and sexual minority youth. Research shows that there

  are efficacious interventions to prevent youth depression and depressive

  symptoms. These preventive interventions have the potential to play a

  key role in addressing these mental health disparities by reducing youth

  risk factors and enhancing protective factors. However, there are

  comparatively few preventive interventions directed specifically to

  these vulnerable subgroups, and sample sizes of diverse subgroups in

  general prevention trials are often too low to assess whether preventive

  interventions work equally well for vulnerable youth compared to other

  youth. In this paper, we describe the importance and need for

  ``scientific equity,{''''} or equality and fairness in the amount of

  scientific knowledge produced to understand the potential solutions to

  such health disparities. We highlight possible strategies for promoting

  scientific equity, including the following: increasing the number of

  prevention research participants from vulnerable subgroups, conducting

  more data synthesis analyses and implementation science research,

  disseminating preventive interventions that are efficacious for

  vulnerable youth, and increasing the diversity of the prevention science

  research workforce. These strategies can increase the availability of

  research evidence to determine the degree to which preventive

  interventions can help address mental health disparities. Although this

  paper utilizes the prevention of youth depression as an illustrative

  case example, the concepts are applicable to other health outcomes for

  which there are disparities, such as substance use and obesity.'
affiliation: 'Perrino, T (Corresponding Author), Univ Miami Miller Sch Med, Dept Publ
  Hlth Sci, 1120 NW 14th St,1011 R-669, Miami, FL 33136 USA.

  Perrino, Tatiana; Brincks, Ahnalee; Cruden, Gracelyn; Pantin, Hilda; Prado, Guillermo,
  Univ Miami Miller Sch Med, Dept Publ Hlth Sci, Miami, FL 33136 USA.

  Beardslee, William, Harvard Univ, Boston Childrens Hosp, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA.

  Bernal, Guillermo, Univ Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR 00936 USA.

  Howe, George, George Washington Univ, Washington, DC USA.

  Murry, Velma, Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN 37235 USA.

  Sandler, Irwin, Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ USA.

  Cruden, Gracelyn; Brown, C. Hendricks, Northwestern Univ, Chicago, IL 60611 USA.'
author: Perrino, Tatiana and Beardslee, William and Bernal, Guillermo and Brincks,
  Ahnalee and Cruden, Gracelyn and Howe, George and Murry, Velma and Pantin, Hilda
  and Prado, Guillermo and Sandler, Irwin and Brown, C. Hendricks
author-email: tperrino@med.miami.edu
author_list:
- family: Perrino
  given: Tatiana
- family: Beardslee
  given: William
- family: Bernal
  given: Guillermo
- family: Brincks
  given: Ahnalee
- family: Cruden
  given: Gracelyn
- family: Howe
  given: George
- family: Murry
  given: Velma
- family: Pantin
  given: Hilda
- family: Prado
  given: Guillermo
- family: Sandler
  given: Irwin
- family: Brown
  given: C. Hendricks
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1007/s11121-014-0518-7
eissn: 1573-6695
files: []
issn: 1389-4986
journal: PREVENTION SCIENCE
keywords: 'Scientific equity; Health disparities; Collaborative data synthesis;

  Depression; Adolescents'
keywords-plus: 'MENTAL-HEALTH DISPARITIES; DSM-IV DISORDERS; SUBTHRESHOLD DEPRESSION;

  CHILDHOOD ADVERSITIES; PSYCHIATRIC-DISORDERS; INTERVENTION RESEARCH;

  ETHNIC DISPARITIES; SEXUAL MINORITY; CHILDREN; ADOLESCENTS'
language: English
month: JUL
number: '5'
number-of-cited-references: '71'
orcid-numbers: 'Bernal, Guillermo/0000-0001-8855-1314

  Bernal, Guillermo/0000-0001-8855-1314

  Brown, C Hendricks/0000-0002-0294-2419'
pages: 642-651
papis_id: 6cf89bfe83e165f758f361fb6591c91c
ref: Perrino2015scientificequity
researcherid-numbers: 'Bernal, Guillermo/O-2513-2019

  Brincks, Ahnalee/HLW-8124-2023

  Bernal, Guillermo/E-6360-2010

  '
times-cited: '31'
title: Toward Scientific Equity for the Prevention of Depression and Depressive Symptoms
  in Vulnerable Youth
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000355634900002
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '13'
volume: '16'
web-of-science-categories: Public, Environmental \& Occupational Health
year: '2015'