Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of offering a chair-based yoga programme in addition to usual care in older adults with multiple long-term conditions: a pragmatic, parallel group, open label, randomised controlled trial.

Background: People with multiple long-term conditions are more likely to have poorer health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Yoga has the potential to improve HRQOL. Gentle Years Yoga© (GYY) is a chair-based yoga programme for older adults.

Chair-based yoga programme for older adults with multimorbidity: RCT with embedded economic and process evaluations.

Background: Older adults with multimorbidity experience impaired health-related quality of life and treatment burden. Yoga has the potential to improve several aspects of health and well-being. The British Wheel of Yoga's Gentle Years Yoga© programme was developed specifically for older adults, including those with chronic conditions.

The first consultation with a depressed patient: A qualitative study of GPs' approaches to diagnosis.

Background: The first consultation with a depressed patient is important because many patients do not return for subsequent visits. Therefore, the first consultation provides a unique opportunity for diagnosis (if required) and treatment, but there are risks of both under and over-diagnosis.

Aim: To understand how general practitioners utilize diagnosis when patients present with a new episode of depression.

Treatment of depression in the first primary care consultation: A qualitative study.

Introduction: The first primary care consultation for patients with depression can have long-term consequences for patients, but little is known about treatment decisions at this visit. The aim of this study was to explore the treatment of patients presenting in primary care with a new episode of depression and the drivers behind GPs' treatment decisions at the initial consultation.

Materials And Methods: A random sample of GPs in Auckland was invited to participate.

Emoqol 100, an ultra ultra-brief mood case-finding tool: A diagnostic accuracy study.

Background: Case-finding for low mood in primary care can be time-consuming using current depression inventories.

Aim: To assess the diagnostic accuracy, of a single verbally administered question on the emotional quality of life (Emoqol 100), for low mood in patients with symptoms of distress in an ambulatory care setting.

Design And Setting: Eligible patients were consecutive patients seen by one of the authors over 13 months with possible distress/low mood.