Depression Outpatient Cardiology Screening Study

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Depression, Coronary Heart Disease

In brief

This study compares the effects of depression screening and case management to usual care in cardiology outpatients with documented evidence of coronary heart disease. Despite strong evidence that depression is a risk factor for cardiac events, there is insufficient evidence to support the use of depression screening in cardiac patients.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01552889

Run by

Washington University School of Medicine

People needed

201

Starts

2012-01-01

Expected to finish

2016-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-04-27

Who can join

Age: 21 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• recent history of Acute Coronary Syndrome or other cardiac event or documented heart disease
• score of 10 or higher on the Patient Health Questionnaire

You may not qualify if…

• suicidal ideation or behavior
• cognitive impairment or inability to read or speak English
• schizophrenia, bipolar disorder
• active substance abuse or alcoholism
• severe valvular disease, severe congestive heart failure, malignancy
• physical limitations that would interfere with participation in the study
• medical contraindications to the use of available antidepressants
• participation in a competing research protocol
• physician or patient refusal

Where it is running

• Behavioral Medicine Center at Washington University — St Louis, Missouri, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Trial information comes from ClinicalTrials.gov and is refreshed daily. TrialsForMe does not provide medical care and does not run the studies it lists.