Economic evaluation of an experience sampling method intervention in depression compared with treatment as usual using data from a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Experience sampling, a method for real-time self-monitoring of affective experiences, holds opportunities for person-tailored treatment. By focussing on dynamic patterns of positive affect, experience sampling method interventions (ESM-I) accommodate strategies to enhance personalized treatment of depression-at potentially low-costs. This study aimed to investigate the cost-effectiveness of an experience sampling method intervention in patients with depression, from a societal perspective.

Methods

Participants were recruited between January 2010 and February 2012 from out-patient mental health care facilities in or near the Dutch cities of Eindhoven and Maastricht, and through local advertisements. Out-patients diagnosed with major depression (n = 101) receiving p

SUBMITTER: Simons CJP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5747107 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature