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Trial reportBMC health services research2009

Collaborative stepped care for anxiety disorders in primary care: aims and design of a randomized controlled trial.

Anna D T Muntingh, Christina M van der Feltz-Cornelis, Harm W J van Marwijk, Philip Spinhoven, Willem J J Assendelft, Margot W M de Waal, Leona Hakkaart-van Roijen, Herman J Adèr, Anton J L M van Balkom

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In one paragraph

Trial report in BMC health services research, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Collaborative care for depression and anxiety problems.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012
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  13. Ten years of integrated care for mental disorders in the Netherlands.International journal of integrated care · 2011
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Anna D T MuntinghNetherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction (Trimbos-institute), Utrecht, the Netherlands. amuntingh@trimbos.nl
Christina M van der Feltz-Cornelis
Harm W J van Marwijk
Philip Spinhoven
Willem J J Assendelft
Margot W M de Waal
Leona Hakkaart-van Roijen
Herman J Adèr
Anton J L M van Balkom
Leiden University · NLTrimbos Institute · NLAmsterdam UMC Location VUmc · NLEMGO Institute for Health and Care Research · NLErasmus University Rotterdam · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPanic disorder (PD) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) are two of the most disabling and costly anxiety disorders seen in primary care. However, treatment quality of these disorders in primary care generally falls beneath the standard of international guidelines. Collaborative stepped care is recommended for improving treatment of anxiety disorders, but cost-effectiveness of such an intervention has not yet been assessed in primary care. This article describes the aims and design of a study that is currently underway. The aim of this study is to evaluate effects and costs of a collaborative stepped care approach in the primary care setting for patients with PD and GAD compared with care as usual. METHODS/

designThe study is a two armed, cluster randomized controlled trial. Care managers and their primary care practices will be randomized to deliver either collaborative stepped care (CSC) or care as usual (CAU). In the CSC group a general practitioner, care manager and psychiatrist work together in a collaborative care framework. Stepped care is provided in three steps: 1) guided self-help, 2) cognitive behavioral therapy and 3) antidepressant medication. Primary care patients with a DSM-IV diagnosis of PD and/or GAD will be included. 134 completers are needed to attain sufficient power to show a clinically significant effect of 1/2 SD on the primary outcome measure, the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI). Data on anxiety symptoms, mental and physical health, quality of life, health resource use and productivity will be collected at baseline and after three, six, nine and twelve months. DISCUSSION: It is hypothesized that the collaborative stepped care intervention will be more cost-effective than care as usual. The pragmatic design of this study will enable the researchers to evaluate what is possible in real clinical practice, rather than under ideal circumstances. Many requirements for a high quality trial are being met. Results of this study will contribute to treatment options for GAD and PD in the primary care setting. Results will become available in 2011.

trial registrationNTR1071.

Indexed as

Patient Care ManagementAdultAntidepressive AgentsAnxiety DisordersCognitive Behavioral TherapyCooperative BehaviorCost-Benefit AnalysisFamily PracticeFemaleHumansInterprofessional RelationsMaleMiddle AgedNetherlandsPanic DisorderPrimary Health CareAntidepressive Agents

Identifiers

PMID19737403
PMCPMC2753326
OpenAlexW2109340195

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