Blended care vs. usual care in the treatment of depressive symptoms and disorders in general practice [BLENDING]: study protocol of a non-inferiority randomized trial

Table 1 Overview of the follow-up assessments of the participants

Measures	Description	Baseline	Week 1–10	3 months	6 months	12 months
HRSD-17	Depressive symptom rating	X		X		X
EMA	Daily real time ratings of emotion, affect and events		X
SCID-I	Diagnosis of current depressive disorder	X
QIDS-16	Depressive symptoms rating		X
WHODAS-II	Functional impairment and activity limitation	X		X		X
EQ-5D	Health status	X		X		X
Daily activity section of Leidsche Rijn Health Questionnaire	Regular daily activities	X		X		X
Treatment satisfaction				X		X
TIC-P	Direct and indirect costs			X	X	X
Demographics	Socio-demographic characteristics	X
Resource use	Medication use, number of referrals and GP consultations					X

HRSD-17: Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, 17 items
EMA: ecological momentary assessments
SCID-I: Structured Clinical Interview for DSM disorders
QIDS-16: quick inventory of depressive symptomatology, 16 items
WHODAS-II: WHO Disability Schedule 2.0
EQ-5D: EuroQol five dimensions questionnaire
TIC-P: Trimbos and iMTA questionnaire on Costs associated with Psychiatric illness
GP: general practitioner

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