Trial reportHealth services research2002
The effects of primary care depression treatment on patients' clinical status and employment.
Trial report in Health services research, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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53 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Interventions to improve return to work in depressed people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Collaborative care for depression and anxiety problems.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- Effect of Adding a Work-Focused Intervention to Integrated Care for Depression in the Veterans Health Administration: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2020Trial
- A Randomized Comparative Effectiveness Trial for Preventing Type 2 Diabetes.American journal of public health · 2015Trial
- A randomized clinical trial of a telephone depression intervention to reduce employee presenteeism and absenteeism.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2015Trial
- Rationale, design, and baseline characteristics of a community-based comparative effectiveness trial to prevent type 2 diabetes in economically disadvantaged adults: the RAPID Study.Contemporary clinical trials · 2014Trial
- Impact of a work-focused intervention on the productivity and symptoms of employees with depression.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2012Trial
- Treatment of youth depression in primary care under usual practice conditions: observational findings from Youth Partners in Care.Journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology · 2012Trial
- An emergency department intervention for linking pediatric suicidal patients to follow-up mental health treatment.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2011Trial
- Wishing upon a STAR*D: the promise of ideal depression care by primary care providers.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2009Trial
- The effects of quality improvement for depression in primary care at nine years: results from a randomized, controlled group-level trial.Health services research · 2008Trial
- Design of the Coordinated Anxiety Learning and Management (CALM) study: innovations in collaborative care for anxiety disorders.General hospital psychiatryTrial
- Examining Longitudinal, Reciprocal Relations Between Mental Health Service Use and Mental Health Symptoms.The journal of behavioral health services & research · 2026Article
- Collaborative care treatment for major depressive disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Bidirectional Relationships Between Hours Worked and Social Anxiety and Depression Symptoms: A Longitudinal Study.Psychiatric research and clinical practice · 2025Article
- Virtual Collaborative Care Versus Specialty Psychiatry Treatment for Depression or Anxiety.The Journal of clinical psychiatry · 2024Observational
- Explanatory Models and their Relationship with Drug Attitude in Patients with Depression in South India.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2023Article
- Assessment of Outcome-Based Measures of Depression Care Quality in Veterans Health Administration Facilities.The journal of behavioral health services & research · 2023Article
- Suicide Risk Among Hospitalized Versus Discharged Deliberate Self-Harm Patients: Generalized Random Forest Analysis Using a Large Claims Data Set.American journal of preventive medicine · 2022Article
- Health care system and patient costs associated with receipt of minimally adequate treatment for depression and anxiety disorders in older adults.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate the effects of depression treatment in primary care on patients' clinical status and employment, over six months. DATA SOURCES/STUDY
settingData are from a randomized controlled trial of quality improvement for depression that included 938 adults with depressive disorder in 46 managed primary care clinics in five states. STUDY
designObservational analysis of the effects of evidence-based depression care over six months on health outcomes and employment. Selection into treatment is accounted for using instrumental variables techniques, with randomized assignment to the quality improvement intervention as the identifying instrument. DATA COLLECTION/EXTRACTION
methodsPatient-reported clinical status, employment, health care use, and personal characteristics; health care use and costs from claims data. PRINCIPAL
findingsAt six months, patients with appropriate care, compared to those without it, had lower rates of depressive disorder (24 percent versus 70 percent), better mental health-related quality of life, and higher rates of employment (72 percent versus 53 percent), each p<.05.
conclusionsAppropriate treatment for depression provided in community-based primary care substantially improves clinical and quality of life outcomes and employment.
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