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Working Toward Wellness

NCT00694681 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 499

Last updated 2012-03-27

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Working toward Wellness is a telephone care management and outreach monitoring program designed to help Medicaid recipients who are experiencing major depression to enter and remain in evidence-based treatment. To study the effects of Working toward Wellness, individuals receiving Medicaid in Rhode Island who are eligible for mental health services through United Behavioral Health were screened by telephone for depression. Those who were found to have major depression and who agreed to be in the study were randomly assigned. Program participants received intensive monitoring from Master's level clinicians called care managers to facilitate and support clinical treatment. The control group received usual care that included only referrals to mental health treatment providers. The study hypothesis is that telephonic care management would increase visits to mental health professionals and use of appropriate medication, which in turn would reduce depression severity and lead to greater employment and productivity at work.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Telephonic care management

Individuals received intensive outreach from care managers, first to help them to enter treatment and then, if treatment began, to remain in it for an appropriate time. Treatment is based on the American Psychiatric Association's Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines for Major Depression, which includes psychotherapy and antidepressant medications. Outreach and care management took place by telephone.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • David Butler · MDRC

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-10-31
Primary Completion
2010-09-30
Completion
2011-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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