Implementation of a psychological online intervention for low to moderate depression in primary care: study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Depression affects millions of people all over the world and implies a great socioeconomic burden. Despite there are different effective evidence-based interventions for treating depression, only a small proportion of these patients receives an appropriate treatment. In this regard, information and communication technologies (ICTs) can be used with therapeutic aims and this can contribute to make interventions more accessible. One example is "Smiling is fun", an internet-based treatment which has proved to be effective and cost-effective for treating depression in Spanish Primary Care (PC). However, the "know-do gap" between research and clinical settings implies that the actual implementation of such interventions could last up to 20 years. To overcome this obstacle, th

SUBMITTER: Lorente-Catala R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9789354 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature