Training Doctors to Support Patient Self-Care of Depression
Depression, Diabetes
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Depression focused on measuring Chronic disease, Cluster randomization, Comorbidity, Depression, Diabetes, Medical history taking, Office visits, Patient acceptance of health care, Patient compliance, Patient simulation, Physician patient relations, Primary health care, Randomized controlled trials, Self care, Self efficacy
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: Physicians (targeted enrollment=56; actual enrollment=50)
- Currently in practice at a participating office within one of the 2 participating health systems (University of California Davis Primary Care Network, Sutter Sacramento Health System)
- Trained as a family physician, general practitioner, and/or general internist
- Able to read and speak English
Inclusion Criteria: Group of patients with diabetes and depressive symptoms (targeted enrollment=168; actual enrollment=15)
- Receive primary health care in one of the participating offices, from one of the participating primary care physicians
- Aged 18 years or older
- Able to read and speak English
- Self-report of adequate vision, hearing, and hand function to complete self-administered questionnaires on a touch screen notebook computer
- Have concurrent diagnoses of depression and diabetes, determined via medical record review
- Have at least mild depressive symptoms, manifested by a score of 10 or greater on a telephone-administered Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9).
- Have an office visit scheduled with their assigned primary care provider within 1 month of study eligibility screening
- Made 2 or more of their primary care office visits during the preceding year with their assigned primary care provider
Inclusion Criteria: Group of patients with various health conditions, ie, not limited to diabetes and depression (targeted enrollment=336; actual enrollment=117)
- Receive primary health care in one of the participating offices, from one of the participating primary care physicians
- Aged 18 years or older
- Able to read and speak English
- Self-report of adequate vision, hearing, and hand function to complete self-administered questionnaires on a touch screen notebook computer
- Have an office visit scheduled with their assigned primary care provider within 1 month of study eligibility screening
- Made 2 or more of their primary care office visits during the preceding year with their assigned primary care provider
Exclusion Criteria: Patients (applies to all study patients)
- Self-report or medical record evidence of unstable overall medical status
- Self-report or medical record evidence of terminal illness
- Self-report or medical record evidence of bipolar disorder, chronic psychosis (schizophrenia or other), or personality disorder
- Self-report or medical record evidence of a history of attempted suicide
- Planned transfer of care to a health system other than the 2 participating systems within 6 months
- Inability to understand any of the screening questions, after appropriate explanation (e.g. due to cognitive impairment, developmental delay, or other reasons)
Sites / Locations
- Sutter Health Sacramento
- University of California Davis Health System
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Active Comparator
SEE IT training (interviewing skills)
Control (knowledge enhancement)
Intervention to train primary care physicians in the use of self-efficacy enhancing interviewing techniques (SEE IT) with patients who have coexisting depression and diabetes
Brief video clip designed to increase primary care physician awareness of new medication treatments for patients with diabetes