A home-based intervention to reduce depressive symptoms and improve quality of life in older African Americans: a randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Effective care models for treating older African Americans with depressive symptoms are needed.

Objective

To determine whether a home-based intervention alleviates depressive symptoms and improves quality of life in older African Americans.

Design

Parallel, randomized trial stratified by recruitment site. Interviewers assessing outcomes were blinded to treatment assignment. (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00511680).

Setting

A senior center and participants' homes from 2008 to 2010.

Patients

African Americans aged 55 years or older with depressive symptoms.

Intervention

A multicomponent, home-based intervention delivered by social workers or a wait-list control group that received the intervention at 4 months.

Measurements

Self-reported d

SUBMITTER: Gitlin LN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4091662 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature