Enhancing the Clinical Effectiveness of Depression Screening Using Patient-targeted Feedback in General Practices

The feedback for the patient contains the screening result, information about depression in general, guideline based treatment recommendations for patients and contact-information for treatment.

The feedback for the general practitioner contains the screening result and guideline-based recommendations, i.e. to inform patients of their depression screening result. Nevertheless, in order to reflect routine clinical practice, the physicians will decide themselves whether or not to address depression during their consultation with the patient.