Economic evaluation of a task-shifting intervention for common mental disorders in India.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To carry out an economic evaluation of a task-shifting intervention for the treatment of depressive and anxiety disorders in primary-care settings in Goa, India.

Methods

Cost-utility and cost-effectiveness analyses based on generalized linear models were performed within a trial set in 24 public and private primary-care facilities. Subjects were randomly assigned to an intervention or a control arm. Eligible subjects in the intervention arm were given psycho-education, case management, interpersonal psychotherapy and/or antidepressants by lay health workers. Subjects in the control arm were treated by physicians. The use of health-care resources, the disability of each subject and degree of psychiatric morbidity, as measured by the Revised Clinical Interview Schedu

SUBMITTER: Buttorff C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3506405 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature