- ADHD
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- AMED
Allied and Complementary Medicine Database
- ANCOVA
Analysis of covariance
- Asberg SES
Asberg Side Effects Scale
- AUC
Area under the curve
- BDI
Beck Depression Inventory
- BID
Bellevue Index of Depression
- CAMHS
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service(s)
- CAPA
The Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment
- CBT
Cognitive behavioural therapy
- CDI
Children's Depression Inventory
- CDRS
Children's Depression Rating Scale
- CDRS-R
Children's Depression Rating Scale Revised
- CES-D
The Center for Epidemiological Studies- Depression Scale
- CES-DC
The Center for Epidemiological Studies- Depression Scale for children
- C-GAS
Child Global Assessment Scale
- CGI-I
Clincial Global Impressions – Global Improvement Scale
- CGI-S
Clincial Global Impressions – Severity of Illness Scale
- CHMP
Committee on Human Medicinal Products
- CI
Confidence interval
- CINAHL
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
- CSM
Committee on Safety of Medicines
- DALY
Disability adjusted life year
- DAWBA
The Development and Well-Being Assessment
- DfES
Department for Education and Skills
- DICA-R
The Diagnostic Interview for Children and Adolescents-Revised
- DICA-IV A
The Diagnostic Interview for Children and Adolescents-Second revision for adolescents
- DISC
The Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children
- DSM
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (versions III, III-R and IV)
- ECT
Electroconvulsive therapy
- EMBASE
Excerpta Medica Database
- EMDR
Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing
- EMEA
The European Medicines Evaluation Agency
- FBP
Family Bereavement Program
- FDA
(US) Food and Drugs Administration
- GAF
Global Assessment for Functioning
- GDG
Guideline development group
- GP
General practitioner
- GPP
Good practice point
- GSH
Guided self-help
- HDRS
Hamilton Depression Rating Scale
- HoNOSCA
Health of the Nation Outcome Scale for Children and Adolescents
- ICD-10
International Classification of Disease, 10th edition
- IPT
Interpersonal psychotherapy
- K
Number of studies
- K-SADS
Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children
- MAOI
Monoamine oxidase inhibitor
- MEDLINE
Compiled by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) and published on the web by Community of Science, MEDLINE is a source of life sciences and biomedical bibliographic information
- MFQ
Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ-C child version, MFQ-P parent version, SMFQ short version)
- MDD
Major depressive disorder
- MHRA
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- MST
Multi-systemic therapy
- N
Total number of participants
- NCCMH
National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health
- NDST
Non-directive supportive therapy
- NICE
National Institute for Clinical Excellence
- NHS
National Health Service
- NNT-H
Number needed to treat (harm)
- NNT-B
Number needed to treat (benefit)
- NPV
Negative predictive value
- NSF
National Service Framework (for children)
- PCT
Primary Care Trust
- PMHW
Primary mental health workers
- PPV
Positive predictive value
- PsycINFO
An abstract (not full text) database of psychological literature from the 1800s to the present
- RADS
The Reynolds Adolescent Depression Scale
- RCT
Randomised controlled trial
- RDC
Research diagnostic criteria
- RR
Relative risk (risk ratio)
- SD
Standard deviation
- SIGLE
System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe
- SIQ
Suicide Ideation Questionnaire
- SMD
Standardised mean difference
- SNRI
Serotonin and noradrenalin reuptake inhibitors
- SSRIs
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
- VNS
Vagus nerve stimulation
- WHO
World Health Organization
- WL
Waitlist
