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Chung B, Ong M, Ettner SL, Jones F, Gilmore J, McCreary M, Ngo VK, Sherbourne C, Tang L, Dixon E, Koegel P, Miranda J, Wells KB. 12-Month Cost Outcomes of Community Engagement Versus Technical Assistance for Depression Quality Improvement: A Partnered, Cluster Randomized, Comparative-Effectiveness Trial. Ethnicity & disease. 2018 Sep 6; 28(Suppl 2):349-356.
Objective: To compare community engagement and planning (CEP) for coalition support to implement depression quality improvement (QI) to resources for services (RS) effects on service-use costs over a 12-month period. Design: Matched health and community programs (N = 93) were cluster-randomized within communities to CEP or RS. Setting: Two Los Angeles communities. Participants: Adults (N = 1,013) with depressive symptoms (Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-8) = 10); 85% African American and Latino. Interventions: CEP and RS to support programs in depression QI. Main Outcome Measures: Intervention training and service-use costs over 12 months. Results: CEP planning and training costs were almost 3 times higher than RS, largely due to greater CEP provider training participation vs RS, with no significant differences in 12-month service-use costs. Conclusions: Compared with RS, CEP had higher planning and training costs with similar service-use costs.