Primary Prevention of Major Depression Based on the Level and Profile of Risk of Primary Care Attenders: Cluster, Controlled, Randomised Trial (predictD-CCRT)
Depression
About this trial
This is an interventional prevention trial for Depression focused on measuring Depression, Primary prevention., Primary health care., Randomised controlled trial.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients among those attending to primary care centers.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Age under 18 or over 75 years.
- Unable to understand or speak Spanish.
- Represented patients (that is, someone else comes to visit on behalf of the patient).
- Cognitive impairment.
- Psychosis.
- Terminal illness.
- Planning to be outside of the the city during 4 or more months during the next 18 months.
Sites / Locations
- Servicio Andaluz de Salud. Distrito Sanitario Málaga
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Psychosocial Intervention
Usual Care
The intervention we propose to test has 3 actives components. The first one is the fact of giving information to the GPs about the level and risk profile of depression of their patients. The second one is the transmission of this information from the GP to the patient. The third one is the interaction GP/Patient once both have the information about the risk profile of depression and the psychoeducational intervention that the GP will provide to the patient. We will develop psychoeducational booklet, DVDs and websites for patients included in the intervention group. The psychoeducative intervention will be tailored to each patient based on his/her profile, risk level and patients' risk factors. The GPs will receive a 20-hours training course in the intervention. Moreover, we will assume a communitarian view, considering the patient as an active agent for change (empowerment). That is, GPs and patients will work together in order to promote patients' resources.
The kind of care that general practitioners usually provide when not knowing the level and risk profile of depression of the patients