Senior Peer Alliance for Rural Research On Wellness
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: MDD
In brief
Dr. Brooke Hollister, Ph.D. from the department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco is conducting a study comparing two types of interventions for treating depression in rural older adults.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01913366
- Run by
- University of California, San Francisco
- People needed
- 105
- Starts
- 2013-08-01
- Expected to finish
- 2019-03-31
- Last updated by the study team
- 2019-07-31
Who can join
Age: 60 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Residence in rural Tuolumne, Calaveras, San Joaquin or Stanislaus Counties;
- Diagnosis: Major depression, unipolar (by SCID ascertained DSM-IV criteria);
- Severity of depression: A PHQ-9>10 or a 24-Item HDRS>19;
- Need for social services: CANE score> 2, i.e. at least one unmet need;
You may not qualify if…
- Psychotic depression by SCID-IV, i.e., presence of delusions;
- High suicide risk, i.e. intent or plan to attempt suicide in near future;
- Presence of any Axis I psychiatric disorder or substance abuse other than unipolar major depression;
- Axis II diagnosis of antisocial personality (by SCID-P and DSM-IV);
- History of psychiatric disorders other than unipolar major depression or generalized anxiety disorder (including bipolar disorder, hypomania, and dysthymia);
- Dementia: MMSE below 24 or clinical diagnosis of dementia by DSM-IV;
- Acute/severe medical illness (delirium, metastatic cancer, de-compensated cardiac, liver or kidney failure, stroke or myocardial infarction) 3 months prior to entry; or use of drugs causing depression, (steroids, reserpine, alphamethyl-dopa, tamoxiphen, vincristine);
- Inability to perform any of the ADLs (MAI: ADL subscale) even with assistance (walking with a cane is not an exclusion criterion)
- Inability to speak English;
- Aphasia interfering with communication;
Where it is running
- Catholic Charities Motherlode Office- Sonora — Sonora, California, United States
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