Facilitating Implementation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Primary Care and Community Clinics

South Central VA Mental Illness Research, Education & Clinical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Depression

Treatments: Behavioral: External facilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00676962

H-22908

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators propose to test the effect of external facilitation on the extent that brief cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for depression is incorporated into routine practice in primary care and community based clinics in the VA. The investigators will provide training in brief CBT to mental health providers in participating clinics. To the investigators' knowledge, this will be the first study of the effect of external facilitation on outcomes of a training intervention.

Full description

We will test the effect of external facilitation on the extent that brief CBT for depression is incorporated into routine practice in primary care and community based clinics in the VA. We will provide training in brief CBT to mental health providers in participating clinics. To our knowledge, this will be the first study of the effect of external facilitation on outcomes of a training intervention.

Enrollment: 23 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• mental health clinicians in selected clinics who do or are willing to do psychotherapy.

Exclusion criteria

• clinicians who do not do psychotherapy in eligible clinics.

Trial design

23 participants in 1 patient group

Facilitation

Experimental group

Description:

Therapists receive assistance with adopting CBT

Treatment:

Behavioral: External facilitation