Healthcare use in patients with cardiovascular disease and depressive symptoms - The impact of a nurse-led internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy program. A secondary analysis of a RCT.

Ghassan Mourad, Johan Lundgren, Gerhard Andersson, Peter Johansson

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Article in Internet interventions, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02778074 (Internet-guided Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to Improve Depression in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease), which is not on this map. Cited by 1 paper.

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NCT02778074 nacompletednot on this map

Internet-guided Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to Improve Depression in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity Hospital, LinkoepingRan2017 to 2019Enrolled144ConditionsCardiovascular Disease, DepressionArmsInternet cognitive behavioural therapy, Moderated Discussion Forum

3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

Primary care and community interventions for multimorbidity involving depression or anxiety: systematic review with meta-analysis.BMJ medicine · 2026
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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ghassan MouradDepartment of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.

Johan LundgrenDepartment of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.

Gerhard AnderssonDepartment of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.

Peter JohanssonDepartment of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.

Linköping University · SE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Depressive symptoms in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) can lead to increased healthcare use. In a randomized controlled trial (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02778074), we reported that a 9-week internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy (iCBT) program ( Methods: Data on healthcare use were retrieved from care data registries in five hospitals in Southeastern Sweden. Results: The year prior to intervention, the iCBT group had a mean of 31 outpatient clinic/primary care contacts per patient compared with 21 contacts the year after. The corresponding numbers for the ODF group were 37 and 25. The decrease was 32 % in both groups and did not differ significantly ( Conclusion: Reduced depressive symptom scores following intervention were associated with lower outpatient service use, but iCBT was not superior compared to ODF. This implicates that reducing depression in CVD patients, regardless of the type of internet-delivered intervention used, is important since it may reduce healthcare use in these patients.

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Cardiovascular diseaseDepressive symptomsHealthcare useHospital admissionsInternet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapyOutpatient services

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PMID38093803

DOI10.1016/j.invent.2023.100696

PMCPMC10714332

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