Participation in Training for Depression Care Quality Improvement: A Randomized Trial of Community Engagement or Technical Support.

Objective: Community engagement and planning (CEP) could improve dissemination of depression care quality improvement in underresourced communities, but whether its effects on provider training participation differ from those of standard technical assistance, or resources for services (RS), is unknown. This study compared program- and staff-level participation in depression care quality improvement training among programs enrolled in CEP, which trained networks of health care and social-community agencies jointly, and RS, which provided technical support to individual programs.

Methods: Matched programs from health care and social-community service sectors in two communities were randomly assigned to RS or CEP.