Consideration of how the CPIC approach of comparing coalition and individual technical assistance interventions to implement behavioral health treatments across sectors might be adapted to address the opioid epidemic.
Community coalition building may increase use of health care services for depression.
Our study suggests that minority men, similarly to the overall CPIC sample of men and women, benefited from the CEP approach relative to the RS approach.
An exercise to prioritize the needs of depressed individuals in LA County identified stable and affordable housing as the number one priority.
We describe how community-partnered conferences may be integrated into research projects by using an example of Community Partners in Care (CPIC), a large, cluster-randomized, controlled, trial (RCT) that uses community-partnered participatory research (CPPR) principles.
Community-based participatory research promotes community engagement in improving depression care.
This study examined the long-term impact on stigma concerns of two quality improvement (QI) interventions for depression in primary care.
This article describes the planning phase of the Community Partners in Care (CPIC) initiative, a community-based effort to improve quality and outcomes of depression treatment for adults.
Short-term quality improvement (QI) interventions for depression can improve long-term mental health but mechanisms are unknown.
Examine 9-year outcomes of implementation of short-term quality improvement (QI) programs for depression in primary care.
Quality improvement (QI) programs for depression can improve outcomes of care and reduce outcome disparities.
Explores the cost-effectiveness of quality-improvement interventions for depression in primary care, relative to usual care, among patients with subthreshold depression or depressive disorder.
Investigates whether quality improvement programs for depression would be effective among substance misusers.
Detection and care of mental health and substance use problems for patients with depression is not influenced by patient-provider gender concordance.
Intent-to-treat analysis of data from a group-level controlled trial, in which matched primary care clinics in the US were randomized to usual care or to one of two interventions designed to increase the rate of effective depression treatment.
The utility of including patients with subthreshold depression in quality improvement programs is unclear.
Kathryn Rost, L. Miriam Dickinson, John Fortney, Richard C. Hermann, MD, MS4
Mental Health Services Research; Vol 7, No. 2; June 2005
Kathryn Rost, L. Miriam Dickinson, John Fortney
Mental Health Services Research; Vol 7, No. 3; September 2005
Support for WIC, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, is based on the belief that WIC works.
To affect both quality and outcomes of care for men and women while reducing gender differences, QI programs may need to facilitate access to both medication management and effective psychotherapy for depression.
Premium increases induced substantial plan switching.
QI programs for depressed primary care patients can improve health outcomes for 6 to 28 months; effects for longer than 28 months are unknown.
Cognitive factors appear more important to the mode effect in the CES-D.
Describes an approach to addressing the goals of patient centeredness and equity in a randomized trial of quality improvement for depressed primary care patients.
High rates of service use and poor outcomes emphasize the urgency of new research to find solutions for these patients.
Quality improvement programs appear to improve quality of care without increasing disparities, and may offer an approach to reduce health disparities.
The authors examine the impact of the two Partners in Care (PIC) primary care quality improvement (QI) interventions on counseling services.
The relationship between stigma and service use deserves further study in diverse settings and populations.
Technique based on sample selection models that has been used by health economists to estimate the price elasticity of firms' demand for insurance.
These data support the theory that patients seek chiropractic care almost exclusively for musculoskeletal symptoms.
Agreement between self-reports and actual benefits was stronger for general medical services than for mental health care.
Quality improvement programs for depression can improve treatment rates and outcomes for depressed primary care patients with comorbid medical illness
Robert M. Bell and Daniel F. McCaffrey
Survey Methodology, 28(2):169-181, 2002
Depression is common in primary care, but rates of adequate care are low.
Utility measures that capture the mental health and non-health outcomes associated with treatment for depression are needed.
Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide, but treatment rates in primary care are low
Use of condoms in this population is highly prevalent, and is nearly universal among those using any contraceptive method.
The authors examined changes in health related quality of life during the 12 months before death in men with prostate cancer.
Significant underuse of evidence-based treatments for depression persists in primary care.
Using a convenience sample of 149 primary care patients with symptoms of depression, the authors measured and compared answers to a single-item ''open question'' with those given in a computerized interview.
This research brief describes work documented in the Partners in Care Program.
The User's Guide describes each component of the Partners in Care quality-improvement kit, its implementation, and its design features.
Gender and socioeconomic status are more significant factors than ethnicity in determining risk for depressive disorder.
Utilities for health conditions, including major depressive disorder, have a theoretical relationship to health-related quality of life (HRQOL).
Presents an item response theory approach to test linking based on summed scores and demonstrates it by calibrating a modified version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale.
Despite low rates of treatment for depression, most depressed primary care patients desire treatment, especially counseling.
Rates of care for depression are highly variable among managed care organizations.
This paper evaluated whether externally designed, evidence-based interventions for improving care for depression can be locally implemented in managed care organizations.
Rates of care for depression are highly variable among managed care organizations.
Explores age differences in preferences for current health states, which is one way to measure trade-offs between "quantity of life" and the "quality" of those health states.
This paper describes a study design that blends health services and clinical research approaches to examine the cost-effectiveness of treatments and of quality improvement for depression in primary care, managed care practices.
This paper discusses whether two key War on Drugs policies, the criminalization of syringes and the disqualification of drug users from the Supplemental Security Income program, are associated with injection-related HIV risk behaviors among IDUs.
Estimates the relative value to patients of physical, mental, and social health when making treatment decisions, and concludes that health care resources should target treatments that improve mental and social health outcomes.
Leslie A. Lenert, Jonathan R. Treadwell, and Carolyn E. Schwartz
Medical Care 37(5):479-489, 1999
This paper evaluated whether externally designed, evidence-based interventions for improving care for depression can be locally implemented in managed care organizations.
