Protocol for a collaborative randomised effectiveness trial of lay-delivered versus clinician-delivered behavioural activation in senior centres.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Depression is common among community-dwelling older adults who make use of senior centre services yet remains undertreated due to a lack of acceptable and available treatments. Emerging evidence suggests that lay health providers can offer psychosocial interventions for mental health disorders experienced by older adults. We developed a streamlined Behavioural Activation intervention (called 'Do More, Feel Better'; DMFB) to be delivered by older adult volunteers and propose to compare its effectiveness to that of clinician-delivered behavioural activation (BA).

Methods and analysis

This study is a type I collaborative randomised effectiveness trial testing the effect of DMFB in comparison to BA among 288 senior centre clients (aged 60+). Participant clients will

SUBMITTER: Raue PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9403148 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature