Effect of Depressin Screening and Care Program at Community Health Center

National Clinical Research Coordination Center, Seoul, Korea

Status: Completed

Conditions: Screening; Elderly; Depression

Treatments: Other: Reminding call

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01626703

A102065_2012_2

Details and patient eligibility

About

Depression affect between 5% and 10% of older adults seen in the primary care setting.Late-life depression is often chronic or recurrent and is associated with substantial suffering, functional impairment, and diminished health-related quality of life.Depressed, older primary care patients are frequent users of general medical services and may have poor adherence to medical treatments.They are also at increased risk of death from suicide and medical illnesses. The aim of this study is to examine whether depression screening and health care practitioner feedback are increased depression treatment rate.

Depression screening is provided 60 or more who visited community health care center with a 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale.GDS scores of 10 or more were classified depression positive. Intervention group participants received twice remind calls from primary care nurse.

Enrollment: 86 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 60 or more
• 10 or more in GDS scor

Exclusion criteria

• severe cognitive problem

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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86 participants in 2 patient groups

intervention

Experimental group

Description:

remiding call

Treatment:

Other: Reminding call

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention