Collaborative Care for Depressed Elderly in Korea

NCT ID: NCT01626716

Last Updated: 2016-03-11

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 80 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2012-06-30
• Study Completion Date: 2013-12-31

Brief Summary

Late-life depression is associated with physical limitations, greater functional impairment, increased utilization and cost of health care, and suicide. Collaborative care, linking primary and mental health specialty care, has been shown to be effective for the treatment of late-life depression in primary care settings in Western countries. The primary aim of this project is to implement a depression care management intervention, and examine its effectiveness on the depressive symptoms of older patients in Korean primary care settings. Based on chronic disease management theory and previous Collaborative care management studies in western countries, we propose to test a Depression Care Management intervention,which includes care manager to support a primary care physician of depression in their old patients. Care manager'd role are monitoring the progress of treatment, supporting patient's adherence, educating patients/ family and facilitate communication between providers. Also psychiatrists provide consultation and supervision of care managers. Using a randomized controlled design, we will examine whether the Depression care management is an effective treatment for patients with late life depression in rural Korea. The primary outcome would be the improvement of depressive symptoms of patients in primary care setting.

Conditions

Depression; Elderly; Korean; Collaborative Care

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

case management

patients who assigned to the intervention group will take 7 times phone calls from case manager

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

care management

Intervention Type: OTHER

patients who assigned to the intervention group will take 7 times phone calls from case manager

control

usual care

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

care management

patients who assigned to the intervention group will take 7 times phone calls from case manager

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• 60 year or older
• diagnosed depression based on DSM-IV criteria

Exclusion Criteria

• impairment of hearing
• dementia
• other psychiatric disorders

• Minimum Eligible Age: 60 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

National Clinical Research Coordination Center, Seoul, Korea

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Hyeon Woo Yim

Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Chungju community health care center

Chungju, ChoongBuk, South Korea

Countries

South Korea

Other Identifiers

A102065_2012_1

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id