• Summary: We assessed patient and provider barriers and facilitators to sustainability of a collaborative depression care model for depression treatment in predominantly Hispanic diabetes patients in safety net care clinics.
• Findings: Semi-structured interviews and focus groups were conducted with patients and providers at two community clinics participating in a randomized controlled effectiveness trial of the Multi-faceted Depression and Diabetes Program (MDDP), a socioculturally adapted collaborative care model. Analysis identified eight themes grouped into three categories: barriers, facilitators, and recommendations for program sustainability. Barriers included patient concerns about use of medication and provider concerns about use of psychotherapy, increased workload for clinic staff, delay in receiving outcomes data, and lack of resources to sustain the program. Facilitators included patient benefits such as improved clinical outcomes, quality of care received, access, and satisfaction; provider benefits such as increased awareness and reduced anxiety; and clinic benefits in the form of reduced costs of care. Recommendations included changes in communication patterns among providers, specific changes in procedures, changes in resources, and changes in clinic organizational culture.
• Applications: Sustainable adoption of collaborative depression care for underserved populations in safety net care systems by organizational decision-makers and providers requires: stable funding and qualified staff; technologies to facilitate provider access to easily applied treatment guidelines, information exchange between primary care physicians and depression care providers, and routine monitoring of patient depression symptoms and treatment adherence and satisfaction; and treatment consistent with patient preferences.
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