None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
We will recruit ACS patients who exhibit signs of depression from six hospitals, randomise them to MOOD-CARE or usual care (UC), and follow them for up to 2 years. MOOD-CARE is a state-of-the-art telephone counselling program which has the potential to improve psychological, physical, social and vocational functioning; reduce demands on the health system; and potentially, to extend survival for the growing number of Coronary Heart Disease patients in Australia.
Interventions
MOODCARE includes up to 10 telephone counselling sessions,each approximately 30 minutes in duration, over 6 months after hospital discharge for ACS, using Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) delivered by psychologists. The sessions will be most intensive over the first 3 months when depressive symptoms are most likely to affect patients following ACS and to impact on their quality of life and adoption of secondary preventive behaviours. Psychologists will aim to reduce symptoms of depression, as w
MOODCARE includes up to 10 telephone counselling sessions,each approximately 30 minutes in duration, over 6 months after hospital discharge for ACS, using Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) delivered by psychologists. The sessions will be most intensive over the first 3 months when depressive symptoms are most likely to affect patients following ACS and to impact on their quality of life and adoption of secondary preventive behaviours. Psychologists will aim to reduce symptoms of depression, as well as improve Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) risk factors and overall Quality Of Life (QOL).
Sponsors
School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
21 Years to 85 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Participants include those: (i) aged 21-85; (ii) with a clinical diagnosis consistent with that of ACS (Myocardial Infarction [STEMI or non STEMI], unstable angina, by confirmed angiogram); admitted to 6 large, tertiary referral hospitals in Brisbane and Melbourne; (iii) with the ability to understand and provide written informed consent in English; (iv) with access to a telephone during the intervention period and (v) recording a Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ9) score of 5-19
Exclusion criteria
Inability to give informed consent, patients with a life threatening illness, waiting for surgical intervention or inability to comprehend English
Outcome results
None listed