Publications by authors named "Angela Mattson"
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- * The study faced challenges like clinics dropping out and care disruptions due to COVID-19, along with significant differences in patient populations between the program and usual care, leading to the use of propensity score matching to adjust for these discrepancies.
- * Key lessons learned emphasized the importance of adapting methods in response to unexpected issues and weighing the tradeoffs of pragmatic design elements in research to generate useful evidence for clinical practice.
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has consistently been described as an "unprecedented" global health crisis. While the focus has been primarily on the medical and economic impact of the pandemic, psychological sequelae are anticipated. Primary care is the main point of access for mental health care in the United States, making it the ideal locale to provide psychological services for a larger proportion of the population than traditional mental health care settings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Collaborative care models for treatment of adolescent depression are rapidly evolving. However, a dearth of information exists regarding patient characteristics associated with positive outcomes. We explored the association between baseline scores on routine screening tools for substance abuse, mood disorders, and anxiety with depression remission and graduation from a collaborative care program in an outpatient pediatric practice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Depression is common among adolescents, but many lack ready access to mental health services. Integrated models of care for depression are needed, along with evidence to support their use in regular practice. The authors examined the effectiveness of an ongoing collaborative care program for depressed adolescents embedded in a busy primary care practice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrimary care patients frequently present with anxiety with prevalence ratios up to 30%. Brief cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) has been shown in meta-analytic studies to have a strong effect size in the treatment of anxiety. However, in surveys of anxious primary care patients, nearly 80% indicated that they had not received CBT.
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