资源有限的环境中老年人抑郁症的自助移动消息干预:一个随机对照试验
Marcia Scazufca1,2, Carina Akemi Nakamura3, Nadine Seward4
1Instituto de Psiquiatria, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. scazufca@gmail.com.
Nature medicine
|March 15, 2024
概括
一个移动消息干预措施改善了巴西老年人的抑郁症状. 这种数字化方法为低资源环境中的心理健康提供了一个可扩展的解决方案.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 精神病学是一个精神病学.
- 数字健康数字健康
背景情况:
- 抑郁症对老年人来说是一个重要的问题,特别是在资源较低的环境中.
- 需要可扩展和可访问的干预措施来解决这个日益严重的公共卫生问题.
研究的目的:
- 评估移动通讯心理社会干预措施对改善老年人抑郁症症状的有效性.
- 评估将数字干预整合到老年抑郁症初级保健中的可行性.
主要方法:
- 一项实用性,随机对照试验 (PRODIGITAL-D) 涉及患有抑郁症状的老年人 (60岁以上) (PHQ-9分数≥10).
- 参与者接受了为期6周的基于精神教育和行为激活或单一信息控制的移动消息干预 (Viva Vida).
- 主要结局是3个月后抑郁症状的改善 (PHQ-9分数<10).
主要成果:
- 干预组的42.4%的参与者表现出改善的抑郁症状,而对照组的32.2% (aOR=1.57,P=0.019).
- 这项干预表明,抑郁症症状的改善在统计学上显著.
- 没有报告任何严重的不良事件,这表明了有利的安全性.
结论:
- 移动消息的心理社会干预可以有效地改善低资源环境中老年人的抑郁症状.
- 这种数字干预显示了将其整合到初级保健中来管理老年人抑郁症的潜力.
- 维瓦维达干预提供了一个可扩展和可访问的老年精神健康护理方法.
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