Depression Management at the Workplace

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Depression

In brief

Randomized trials demonstrate that depression management products can improve clinical and organizational outcomes sufficiently for selected employers to realize a return on investment. Rather than usual care marketing which uses voltage-enhanced promises to sell voltage-diminished products, the investigators designed an evidence-based (EB) intervention to encourage employers to purchase a depression management product that offers the type, intensity and duration of care shown to provide clinical and organizational value. In an RCT designed to examine employer benefit purchasing behavior of depression products in 360 employer members of over 20 regional business coalitions, the research team proposes: (a) to compare the impact of evidence-based (EB) to usual care (UC) presentations on employer benefit purchasing behavior, and (b) to identify mediators and organizational moderators of intervention impact on employer benefit purchasing behavior. This study addresses what policy analysts argue is one of the most pivotal problems in the translation of evidence-based care to 'real world' settings: whether purchasers can be influenced to buy health care products on the basis of value rather than cost. In the likely event that EB \> UC, the study will provide encouragement to use an evidence-based approach to market new health care products to private payers on the basis of the product's clinical and organizational value. UC may achieve comparable outcomes to EB if the limiting factors in benefit purchasing are organizational, purchasing group and vendor constraints that no intervention can meaningfully modify. Support for this scenario would encourage the targeted marketing of new products to coalition members with empirically identified organizational, purchasing group and vendor characteristics, using usual care strategies.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01013220

Run by

Florida State University

People needed

293

Starts

2009-01-01

Expected to finish

2014-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-12-16

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Coalitions who belong to the National Business Coalition on Health are eligible if:
• they have 30+ employer purchasers/affiliates as members
• they act as more than purchasing agents
• (3)they did not participate in the research team's preliminary studies on this topic.
• Employers of participating coalitions are eligible if:
• they are a public or private organization providing health care benefits to 100+ domestic employees
• they have not purchased a depression management product in the past two years.

You may not qualify if…

• None

Where it is running

• Colorado Business Group on Health — Denver, Colorado, United States

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