Trial reportHealth expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy2017
Effectiveness of a decision aid for patients with depression: A randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05477420 (A Survey Study and Effect of Web-based Decision Aids on Preferences Shift), which is not on this map. Cited by 36 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Survey Study and Effect of Web-based Decision Aids on Preferences Shift
Who cites it
36 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 83 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Shared decision-making interventions for people with mental health conditions.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Decision coaching for people making healthcare decisions.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Digital Shared Decision-Making Interventions in Mental Healthcare: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Effectiveness of a web-based decision aid for patients with Generalised Anxiety Disorder in Spain: a randomised controlled trial.BMJ health & care informatics · 2025Trial
- Impact of a Digital Decision Aid When Choosing Between Face-to-Face and Guided Internet-Based Psychological Interventions for Depression Among Chinese-Speaking Participants in Hong Kong: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Trial
- Improving treatment decision-making in bipolar II disorder: a phase II randomised controlled trial of an online patient decision-aid.BMC psychiatry · 2020Trial
- Effectiveness of Shared Decision-Making for Elderly Depressed Minority Primary Care Patients.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2019Trial
- Effectiveness of a decision aid for promoting colorectal cancer screening in Spain: a randomized trial.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2019Trial
- Effectiveness of a decision aid for patients with depression: A randomized controlled trial.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2017Trial
- Supporting Meaningful Choices: A Decision Aid for Individuals Facing Existential Distress and Considering Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Development of a Cocreated Decision Aid for Patients With Depression-Combining Data-Driven Prediction With Patients' and Clinicians' Needs and Perspectives: Mixed Methods Study.Journal of participatory medicine · 2025Article
- Service Attributes and Acceptability of Digital and Nondigital Depression Management Methods Among Individuals With Depressive Symptoms: Survey Study.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
- Development and user testing of a patient decision aid for cancer patients considering treatment for anxiety or depression.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2023Article
- Comparison of analog and digital patient decision aids for the treatment of depression: a scoping review.Frontiers in digital health · 2023Article
- Article
- Effects of decision aids for depression treatment in adults: systematic review.BJPsych bulletin · 2022Review
- Implementation of a shared decision-making training program for clinicians based on the major depressive disorder guidelines in Japan: A multi-center cluster randomized trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Monetary Valuation of a Quality-Adjusted Life Year (QALY) for Depressive Disorders Among Patients and Non-Patient Respondents: A Matched Willingness to Pay Study.Clinical psychology in Europe · 2021Article
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7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundShared decision making is an important component of patient-centred care and decision aids are tools designed to support patients' decision making and help patients with depression to make informed choices.
objectiveThe study aim was to assess the effectiveness of a web-based decision aid for patients with unipolar depression.
designRandomized controlled trial. SETTING AND
participantsAdults diagnosed with a major depressive disorder and recruited in primary care centres were included and randomized to the decision aid (n=68) or usual care (n=79).
interventionPatients in the decision aid group reviewed the decision aid accompanied by a researcher. OUTCOME MEASURES: Knowledge about treatment options, decisional conflict, treatment intention and preference for participation in decision making. We also developed a pilot measure of concordance between patients' goals and concerns about treatment options and their treatment intention.
resultsIntervention significantly improved knowledge (P<.001) and decisional conflict (P<.001), and no differences were observed in treatment intention, preferences for participation, or concordance. One of the scales developed to measure goals and concerns showed validity issues.
conclusionThe decision aid "Decision making in depression" is effective improving knowledge of treatment options and reducing decisional conflict of patients with unipolar depression. More research is needed to establish a valid and reliable measure of concordance between patients' goals and concerns regarding pharmacological and psychological treatment, and the choice made.
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