NCT00676962

Facilitating Implementation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Primary Care and Community Clinics

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 23 (actual)
• Sponsor: South Central VA Mental Illness Research, Education & Clinical Center · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators propose to test the effect of external facilitation on the extent that brief cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for depression is incorporated into routine practice in primary care and community based clinics in the VA. The investigators will provide training in brief CBT to mental health providers in participating clinics. To the investigators' knowledge, this will be the first study of the effect of external facilitation on outcomes of a training intervention.

Detailed description

We will test the effect of external facilitation on the extent that brief CBT for depression is incorporated into routine practice in primary care and community based clinics in the VA. We will provide training in brief CBT to mental health providers in participating clinics. To our knowledge, this will be the first study of the effect of external facilitation on outcomes of a training intervention.

Conditions

• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	External facilitation	Study facilitator meets regularly with therapists to aid implementation of CBT

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-05-01
• Primary completion: 2015-09-01
• Completion: 2015-09-01
• First posted: 2008-05-13
• Last updated: 2015-09-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States