ASHA Bangladesh--An Integrated Intervention to Address Poverty and Depression

Conditions: Depression, Economic Vulnerability, Anxiety, Culture Specific Symptoms

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 Years – 45 Years

Healthy volunteers: No

Phase: NA

Enrollment: 600

Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Worcester

Location: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Dhaka Dhaka Division

Summary

The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to compare the impact of an integrated intervention combining poverty alleviation and depression treatment to depression treatment alone, in low income rural Bangladeshi women with depression. The main question\[s\] it aims to answer are whether adding poverty alleviation to depression treatment in an integrated intervention: 1) improves depression outcomes at 6 months post baseline as measured by changes in the PHQ-9 from baseline--compared to depression treatment alone; 2) reduces the chance of relapse (PHQ-9 \>=5) at 18 months among patients who remitted (PHQ-9\

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age 18-45 2. Meets criteria for Economic Vulnerability as measured by: household income \ 1 month during 18 M period. 4. Household debt greater than 70,000 Taka

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