Integrating depression and acute coronary syndrome care in low resource hospitals in China: the I-CARE randomised clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) often co-occurs with depression, which adversely affects prognosis and increases medical costs, but effective treatment models are lacking, particularly in low-resource settings. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of an ACS and depression integrative care (IC) model compared to usual care (UC) in improving depression symptoms and other health outcomes among patients discharged for ACS in Chinese rural hospitals.

Methods

A multicentre, randomised controlled trial was conducted in sixteen rural county hospitals in China, from October 2014 to March 2017, to recruit consecutively all ACS patients aged 21 years and older after the disease stablised and before discharge. Patients were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive

SUBMITTER: Wu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11261764 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature