Trial reportThe American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry2019
Depression Agency-Based Collaborative: Effect of Problem-Solving Therapy on Risk of Common Mental Disorders in Older Adults With Home Care Needs.
Trial report in The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- The Effects of Gait Speed and Psychomotor Speed on Risk for Depression and Anxiety in Older Adults with Medical Comorbidities.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2021Trial
- The effects of modified problem-solving therapy on depression, coping, and self-efficacy in elderly nursing home residents.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Subjective Sleep Quality and Trajectories of Interleukin-6 in Older Adults.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundInterventions to prevent depression in older adults have mainly focused on young-old ambulatory adults, not on the old-old with disabilities who receive supportive services in their homes.
objectiveThe Depression Agency-Based Collaborative (Dep-ABC) is a single-blind pilot randomized controlled trial assessing the effect of an intervention-development strategy using problem-solving therapy (PST) on the risk of common mental health disorders in this vulnerable population.
methodsThe intervention involved six to eight sessions of PST over 12 weeks. Participants were followed up to 12 months postintervention.
resultsDep-ABC randomized 104 participants-68.4% of eligible and 17.5% of all older adults screened. The proportion of participants with incident major depressive disorder or generalized anxiety disorder was 11.4% in PST and 14.3% in the enhanced usual care control arm. A test of the interaction between time and intervention for anxiety symptoms favored the PST arm (p = 0.04).
conclusionPST did not lower the risk of incident common mental illness but did lower anxiety symptom burden. Apart from low power, the effects of PST may have been blunted by referral for medical and aging services in the enhanced usual care group.
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