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An randomized controlled trial of Post-it® notes did not increase postal response rates in older depressed participants.
- Source :
- Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice; Feb2017, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p102-107, 6p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Rationale, aims and objectives Our aim was to evaluate the effectiveness of a Post-it® note to increase response rates and shorten response times to a 4-month postal follow-up questionnaire sent to participants taking part in the Collaborative Care in Screen-Positive Elders (CASPER) trials. Method Our trial was a two-arm randomized controlled trial comparing response rates to questionnaires with a printed Post-it® note (intervention) and without (control), nested in multi centred randomized controlled trials of older people with varying levels of depressive symptoms; the CASPER<superscript>+</superscript> and CASPER Self Help for those At Risk of Depression (SHARD) trials. A total of 611 participants were eligible and randomized. The primary outcome was response rates, secondary outcomes were time to response and need for a reminder. Results Of 297 participants, 266 (89.6%) returned their 4-month questionnaire in the post-it note arm, compared with 282 of 314 participants (89.8%) in the control arm (OR = 0.97, 95% CI: 0.57, 1.65, P = 0.913). There were no statistically significant differences in time to respond or the need to be sent a reminder. Patients with a major depressive episode were more likely to return questionnaires with post-it notes ( P of interaction = .019). Conclusion There was no significant difference in response rates, time to response, or the need for a reminder between the intervention and control at 4-month follow up for older people with depressive symptoms. However, there was a significant interaction between the Post-it® note group and level of depression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- HEALTH care reminder systems
THERAPEUTICS
MENTAL depression
GERIATRIC assessment
CONFIDENCE intervals
MEDICAL cooperation
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH
RESEARCH funding
STATISTICAL sampling
HEALTH self-care
TIME
LOGISTIC regression analysis
STATISTICAL power analysis
RANDOMIZED controlled trials
HUMAN research subjects
PROPORTIONAL hazards models
DATA analysis software
KAPLAN-Meier estimator
ODDS ratio
OLD age
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13561294
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 121444622
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.12618