NCT02292849

Peer to Peer Delivery of Behavioral Activation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 29 (actual)
• Sponsor: Weill Medical College of Cornell University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to test the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary impact of peer-delivered Behavioral Activation (BA) for depressed older adults (60+) who are Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORC) residents or senior center participants.

Detailed description

This project focuses on helping to solve a growing problem in health care today. Through increased screening in the older adult population, detection of depression has increased which has established a growing need for mental health resources. Unfortunately, there are limited resources to keep up with the steady increase of individuals in need. Training peers to work with older depressed adults in techniques such as behavioral activation provides an alternative model to help moderate the increased need and provide a unique intervention of care. Developing an innovative peer facilitated program has the potential to enhance the delivery of quality health care. The specific aims of the study are 1) to train peer coaches and implement Peer to Peer in the community 2) to examine depression ratings over time.

Conditions

• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Peer to Peer	12 weekly sessions of peer-delivered behavioral activation
OTHER	Standard Mental Health Referral	Standard mental health referral to a community agency

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-11-01
• Primary completion: 2015-10-07
• Completion: 2015-10-07
• First posted: 2014-11-17
• Last updated: 2017-09-29
• Results posted: 2017-09-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States