Project overview

We want to look at whether giving personal feedback to people being treated for depression might help them get better more quickly. One way of doing this is by using patient reported outcome measures (or 'PROMs') which involve patients filling out questionnaires to record their symptoms of depression and feeding back the questionnaire results to the health professionals looking after them, at follow-up appointments. Some benefit for patients from reduced depression has been shown to result from monitoring their progress with PROMs, at least in specialist psychological therapy and mental health settings.

In a previous study in general practices in southern England between 2014 and 2016, lower levels of depression symptoms were found at 12 weeks follow-up among patients who used PROMs at follow-up assessment, suggesting that completing them may improve the outcome of depression treatment for patients. However, this approach has not yet been researched properly in UK general practices.

General practice is the setting in which most people with depression are treated in the UK, so it's important to test whether PROMs can be helpful in that setting.

Local Investigators: Michael Moore, Geraldine Leydon, Beth Stuart, Adam Geraghty, Gareth Griffiths, Rachel Dewar-Haggart, Samantha Williams

Study team: Dr Rachel Dewar-Haggart, Miss Natalie Thompson, Dr Lien Bui

Contact: PROMDEP@soton.ac.uk

This project is being conducted by the Primary Care Research Centre

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Tony Kendrick BSc MD FRCGP FRCPsych FHEA

Professor of Primary Care
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Other researchers

Professor Adam Geraghty BSc MSc PhD CPsychol FHEA

Professor
Research interests
  • Self-management of pain and other chronic symptoms/conditions
  • Mental health
  • Digital interventions for primary care and public health
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Mrs Samantha Williams

Trial Manager
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Professor Geraldine Leydon

Prof of Medicine, Sociology & Healthcare
Research interests
  • Healthcare communication
  • Qualitative methods in health reesarch 
  • Optimising the patient experience
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Professor Gareth Griffiths

Director SCTU & Prof of Clinical Trials
Research interests
  • Gareth Griffiths is Professor of Clinical Trials and directs our Southampton Clinical Trials …
  • His works spans the different phases of clinical trials, from small dose finding and safety s…
  • Phase I-III clinical trials
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Tony Kendrick, Michael Moore, Geraldine Leydon, Beth Stuart, Adam W.A. Geraghty, Guiqing Yao, Glyn Lewis, Gareth Griffiths, Carl May, Rachel Dewar-Haggart, Samantha Williams, Shihua Zhu & Christopher Dowrick, 2020, Trials, 21(1), 1-13
Type: article
Tony Kendrick, Beth Stuart, Geraldine M. Leydon, Adam W.A. Geraghty, Lily Yao, Rachel Ryves, Samantha Williams, Shihua Zhu, Christopher Dowrick, Glyn Lewis & Michael Moore, 2017, BMJ Open, 7(3)
Type: article