Lay-delivered behavioral activation for depressed senior center clients: Pilot RCT

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Patrick J RaueMartha L Bruce

Abstract

We describe the development of a lay-delivered behavioral intervention ("Do More, Feel Better") for depressed senior center clients, and we present preliminary data from a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) on (a) the feasibility of training lay volunteers to fidelity and (b) the acceptability, impact, and safety of the intervention. We trained 11 volunteers at two aging service settings in "Do More, Feel Better" and randomized 18 depressed clients to receive the intervention or referral to mental health services. Pilot data indicated that we can successfully train and certify 64% of older volunteers and that depressed clients receiving the intervention reported high levels of session attendance and satisfaction. While there were no significant differences in 12-week reduction in Hamilton Depression Rating Scale scores between groups, intervention clients showed an 8-point reduction in comparison with a 0-point reduction among referral clients. "Do More, Feel Better" has the potential of transferring evidence-based behavioral interventions to the hands of supervised lay volunteers and can address the insufficient workforce providing geriatric mental health services.

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Aug 2, 2019·International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry·Patrick J RaueMartha L Bruce
Jun 23, 2020·American Journal of Health Promotion : AJHP·Meaghan A KennedyMichael A LaMantia
Jul 7, 2020·The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews·Eleonora UphoffRachel Churchill
Dec 5, 2019·Aging & Mental Health·Patrick J RaueCecily Kaplan
Sep 17, 2020·The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry : Official Journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry·Jo Anne Sirey, Elissa Kozlov

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