The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
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Am J Geriatr Psychiatry · Aug 2007
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter StudyPain limits the effectiveness of collaborative care for depression.
To ascertain the effects of baseline pain on depression outcomes in a collaborative care treatment trial of depression for older adults. ⋯ A collaborative care intervention was significantly more successful in older adults with less pain. Pain may be an important barrier to improvement of depression and attending to pain might produce better depression outcomes.