Health Condition 1: F332- Major depressive disorder, recurrent severe without psychotic features
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention1: Cash-plus program: This consists of monthly unconditional Cash-Transfer over six months flanked by two sessions of financial management skills. The Cash-Transfer will be released direct
delivery of the HAP(Health activity program is a manualised brief psychological intervention that has been developed and tested in India. Its core elements are psychoeducation, behavioural assessment,
evaluation of treatment response at the follow-up visits by research assistants and stepping up non-responders to the General Practitioner to prescribe antidepressants.
Sponsors
Indian Law Society
Sangath
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Person with score of fifteen and above on Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and speaks local vernacular language, Hindi or English
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Any person with psychotic symptoms 2. Any person with a high risk of suicide (who answers daily on question 9 of the Patient Health Questionnaire) 3. Any person who reports being pregnant 4. Any person who is breastfeeding 5. Any person receiving specialist mental health care, including antidepressants 6. Any person who does not have a bank account and does not consent to open one. 7. Any person currently receiving a cash transfer through another program
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Depression severityTimepoint: 0,3,6,9,12 months | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Functional recoveryTimepoint: 0,3,6,9,12 months;Severity of disabilityTimepoint: 0,3,6,9,12 months;Degree of social participationTimepoint: 0,3,6,9,12 months;Degree of quality of lifeTimepoint: 0,3,6,9,12 months;Labour market participationTimepoint: 0,3,6,9,12 months;Treatment responseTimepoint: 6 months;Remission rateTimepoint: 6 months;Extent of Labour market participationTimepoint: 0,3,6,9,12 months;Self-reported personal incomeTimepoint: 0,6,9,12 months;Predicted household incomeTimepoint: 0,6,9,12 months | — |
Countries
India
Contacts
Public ContactSoumitra Pathare
Indian Law Society
Outcome results
None listed