Telephone-delivered collaborative care for treating post-CABG depression: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Depressive symptoms commonly follow coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery and are associated with less positive clinical outcomes.

Objective

To test the effectiveness of telephone-delivered collaborative care for post-CABG depression vs usual physician care.

Design, setting, and participants

Single-blind effectiveness trial at 7 university-based and community hospitals in or near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Participants were 302 post-CABG patients with depression (150, intervention; 152, usual care) and a comparison group of 151 randomly sampled post-CABG patients without depression recruited between March 2004 and September 2007 and observed as outpatients until June 2008.

Intervention

Eight months of telephone-delivered collaborative care provided

SUBMITTER: Rollman BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3010227 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature