NCT02030782

Youth Partners in Care: Depression and Quality Improvement

Youth Partners in Care: Depression & Quality Improvement

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 418 (actual)
• Sponsor: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years – 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This randomized effectiveness trial evaluates a quality improvement intervention aimed at providing access to evidence-based depression treatments (particularly cognitive-behavior therapy for depression and or pharmacotherapy) through primary care for youth ages 13-21, as compared to enhanced usual care. The major hypothesis is that the quality improvement intervention will be associated with improved outcomes, relative to enhanced usual care.

Conditions

• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Quality Improvement (QI) for depression	Major intervention components included a) expert leader teams who planned and implemented the intervention at each clinic, b) care managers who supported primary care clinicians with depression evaluation and management, c) access to cognitive-behavior therapy for depression within each primary care clinic, and d) patient and provider choice regarding treatment modality.
OTHER	Usual Care	Usual care enhanced by provider education regarding depression evaluation and management

Timeline

• Start date: 1999-10-01
• Primary completion: 2003-12-01
• Completion: 2003-12-01
• First posted: 2014-01-09
• Last updated: 2014-01-09

Locations

5 sites across 1 country: United States