PREVENTING DEPRESSION: INVESTIGATION IN COHORTS OF ITS ETIOLOGY AND TRAJECTORY - THE PREDICT STUDY
This project, jointly funded by National Healthcare Group Translational Research Programme Funding and the NMRC Population Health Research Grant Thematic Grant, brings together researchers and clinicians from the Research Division, IMH, Department of Mood and Anxiety, IMH, National Healthcare Group Polyclinics, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Usher Institute, and the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA) cohort. The PREDICT study will adopt a holistic framework to review the course of depression and examine its psychosocial determinants, care needs, health outcomes and immunological markers in a cohort of individuals with sub-syndromal and major depression. The study will address significant research gaps around interactions between diverse factors and depressive symptoms over time, advance our knowledge on the progression of depressive symptoms in the local population, and eventually, enable the development of effective preventive and clinical interventions.
