Chinese Older Adults-Collaboration in Health (COACH)Study

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Depression, Hypertension

In brief

This study will see if education of village doctors and aging workers in identification and management of hypertension and depression, using standardized procedures,consultation with a psychiatrist as needed, and collaborations between the village doctor and aging worker in care elderly patients in the village better achieve better outcomes for their depression and high blood pressure than usual care.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01938963

Run by

University of Rochester

People needed

2685

Starts

2014-01-01

Expected to finish

2019-01-02

Last updated by the study team

2019-04-17

Who can join

Age: 60 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Community-dwelling residents registered to the selected village, and thus also registered patients of the village's PCP.
• Age ≥ 60 years, the typical retirement age in rural China.
• Clinically significant depression defined as baseline PHQ-9 score ≥ 10.
• Diagnosis of hypertension
• Intact cognitive functioning (6-Item Screener score <3) to assure ability to participate with the treatment team in management of their conditions.
• Capable of independent communication
• Capacity to give informed consent.

You may not qualify if…

• Incapable (no capacity) of giving verbal consent to this study.
• Acute high suicide risk at baseline assessment. Patients assessed to be dangerously suicidal at later assessments will be discontinued from the study, their providers notified, and their safety guaranteed.
• Psychosis, alcoholism. We exclude patients with psychosis or active alcoholism in the past 6 months.

Where it is running

• Tulane University — New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
• Regents of the University of Michigan — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
• University of Rochester Medical Center — Rochester, New York, United States
• University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Zhejiang University — Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
• Zhejiang Provincial Committee on Aging — Hangzhou, China
• Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention — Hangzhou, China

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