Measuring Quality of Decisions About Treatment of Depression

University of Massachusetts, Worcester

Status: Completed

Conditions: Depression

Treatments: Behavioral: DVD/Booklet: Coping with Symptoms of Depression

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01152307

CSR-DQ1-002

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this randomized controlled trial is to examine the impact of a patient decision aid on the quality of decisions about managing symptoms of depression. In particular, we will examine whether the decision aid increases knowledge about depression/managing depression symptoms and concordance between goals and treatment choices.

Enrollment: 405 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged 18+
• In the last 12 months, talked to a health care provider about starting or stopping a treatment (prescription medicine for depression or counseling)

Exclusion criteria

• none

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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405 participants in 2 patient groups

Decision Aid

Experimental group

Description:

Group receiving the decision aid (DVD/booklet)

Treatment:

Behavioral: DVD/Booklet: Coping with Symptoms of Depression

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Group not receiving the decision aid (DVD/booklet)