PEERS Using Peer Mentors to Deliver Depression Care

Category Primary study
Registry of Trialsclinicaltrials.gov
Year 2020
Fifteen to twenty percent of older Americans (6 to 8 million people) suffer from depression but more than one-half do not receive any services, a burden disproportionately shared by low-income and minority older adults who receive few or no services. The investigators propose to test a community-based peer model of depression care called PEERS (a peer support program) that provides self-care support for minority and low-income older adults.
Epistemonikos ID: 944185d7a96883b3485965fe26447dd840593a99
First added on: May 07, 2024