Implementation Science Approach to Enhancing Depression Treatment in Collaborative Depression Care Settings ( DepCare )
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of a multi-level intervention - centered around a web-application that facilitates depression screening, automated shared decision making (SDM), patient activation, and psychoeducation - on mental health treatment optimization among patients with elevated depressive symptoms with or without co-morbid anxiety receiving care in primary care clinics that offer collaborative care. The objectives of the study include: Leveraging user centered design to refine an electronic SDM (eSDM) tool (aim 1), and assessing the effect of the eSDM tool on provider behavior (aim 2) and on patient enrollment in depression treatment (aim 3).
Condition
- Depressive Symptoms
Eligibility
- Eligible Ages
- Over 18 Years
- Eligible Genders
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- English or Spanish Speaking - ≥ 18 years of age - Elevated depressive symptoms Elevated Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-9 >=10 Elevated PHQ-9 >=5 and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)-7 >= 10
Exclusion Criteria
- Under the care of a psychiatrist or depression collaborative care manager in the prior 3 months - Diagnosis of psychosis or schizophrenia - Diagnosis of bipolar disorder - Dementia or severe cognitive impairment - History of coronary heart disease - Pregnancy - Dementia or severe cognitive impairment
Study Design
- Phase
- N/A
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel Assignment
- Intervention Model Description
- 2 arm design with provider being the unit of randomization and patients being nested within provider
- Primary Purpose
- Health Services Research
- Masking
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
- Masking Description
- Treatment optimization assessor will be blinded to intervention vs. control start arm of the intervention.
Arm Groups
| Arm | Description | Assigned Intervention |
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Experimental DepCare Intervention |
The clinic (administrators, staff, care managers) will receive quality improvement support and education around depression screening as well as local technical assistance for mental health treatment optimization. The cluster of primary care providers in the intervention arm will receive education and decisional support for optimizing mental health treatment and access to quality improvement/implementation meetings. Eligible patients will receive a tool that facilitates enhanced screening, diagnosis recognition, treatment selection support, psychoeducation, and activation. |
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Active Comparator Enhanced Usual Care |
The clinic (administrators, staff, care managers) will receive quality improvement support and education around depression screening as well as local technical assistance for mental health treatment optimization. The cluster of primary care providers and patients in the active comparator arm will have access to this clinic-level strategy (i.e., the same clinic level intervention as in the DepCare group), but will not receive any provider or patient-level interventions. |
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Recruiting Locations
More Details
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sponsor
- Columbia University
Detailed Description
Collaborative care, a team-based approach to integrating primary and behavioral health, is effective in reducing depressive and anxiety symptoms and improving clinical outcomes. However, attempts to optimize collaborative care in real world settings have been hindered by patient (stigma, low self-efficacy, low perceived treatment efficacy), provider (suboptimal symptom recognition and communication at referral), and system (limited resources, lack of screening) level barriers. Few if any prior studies have focused on assessing the effectiveness of multi-level strategies to optimize treatment engagement in primary care settings in the sustainability phase of collaborative care. Using the behavior change wheel (BCW) framework, we created a multi-level strategy for optimizing treatment in primary care settings with collaborative care programs. The strategy involves patient-level electronic screening, patient activation, and an automated shared decision-making tool in addition to primary care provider-level behavioral health education with automated decisional support. The investigators now aim to test this multifaceted implementation strategy for optimizing treatment amongst patients with elevated depressive symptoms (with or without co-morbid anxiety) in the ambulatory care network (ACN) clinics of New York Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH) with established/mature collaborative care programs that predominantly care for socioeconomically disadvantaged and minority patients. We will randomize providers to either the multicomponent strategy or enhanced usual care. The investigators aim to assess the effectiveness of this intervention on patient engagement in mental health treatment (primary outcome) as well as on provider action to optimize/manage treatment (secondary outcome).
