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What Factors Determine Disclosure Of Suicide Ideation In Adults 60 And Older To A Treatment Provider?, Steven D. Vannoy Jun 2014

What Factors Determine Disclosure Of Suicide Ideation In Adults 60 And Older To A Treatment Provider?, Steven D. Vannoy

Steven D Vannoy

Correlates of patient disclosure of suicide ideation to a primary care or mental health provider were identified. Secondary analyses of IMPACT trial data were conducted. Of the 107 patients 60 years of age or older who endorsed thoughts of ending their life at least "a little bit" during the past month, 53 indicated they had disclosed these thoughts to a mental health or primary care provider during this period. Multiple logistic regression was used to identify predictors of disclosure to a provider. Significant predictors included poorer quality of life and prior mental health specialty treatment. Among participants endorsing thoughts of …


Effectiveness Of Problem-Solving Therapy For Older, Primary Care Patients With Depression: Results From The Impact Project, Patricia Arean, Mark Hegel, Steven D. Vannoy, Ming-Yu Fan, Jurgen Unuzter Jan 2008

Effectiveness Of Problem-Solving Therapy For Older, Primary Care Patients With Depression: Results From The Impact Project, Patricia Arean, Mark Hegel, Steven D. Vannoy, Ming-Yu Fan, Jurgen Unuzter

Steven D Vannoy

Purpose: We compared a primary-care-based psy- chotherapy, that is, problem-solving therapy for primary care (PST-PC), to community-based psycho- therapy in treating late-life major depression and dys- thymia. Design and Methods: The data here are from the IMPACT study, which compared collabora- tive care within a primary care clinic to care as usual in the treatment of 1,801 primary care patients, 60 years of age or older, with major depression or dysthymia. This study is a secondary data analysis (n = 433) of participants who received either PST-PC (by means of collaborative care) or community-based psychotherapy (by means of usual care). …