NCT01402206

Management of Depression in Primary Care

Management of Depression in Primary Health Care: a Controlled Trial on the Effectiveness of Regular, Structured, Patient-centered Visits

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 258 (actual)
• Sponsor: Göteborg University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Most people in Sweden with mild to moderate depression are treated in primary care, but follow-up is unstructured, and we know little about whether structured, follow-up would affect the prognosis for depression and working life. The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of regular, structured, patient-centered visits on mild to moderate depression.

Conditions

• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Structured patient-centered follow up of depression	All patients who agree to participate in the study are diagnosed by their GP with a diagnostic assessment instrument called PRIME-MD. Participants in the intervention group visit their GPs at baseline and 4, 8, and 12 weeks. At each visit, participants complete MADRS-s for the assessment of depression severity and discuss the results with their GP in a patient-centered consultation. We have chosen to use the MADRS/MADRS-S depression rating scale in this study because it is a easy to use standard instrument especially suitable for measuring change in depressive symptoms. The control group receives treatment as usual (no intervention).

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-03-01
• Primary completion: 2013-12-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2011-07-26
• Last updated: 2016-08-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden