TY - JOUR
T1 - Implementing and up-scaling evidence-based eMental health in Europe
T2 - The study protocol for the MasterMind project
AU - MasterMind consortium
AU - Vis, Christiaan
AU - Kleiboer, Annet
AU - Prior, Reinhard
AU - Bønes, Erland
AU - Cavallo, Marco
AU - Clark, Stella Anne
AU - Dozeman, Els
AU - Ebert, David
AU - Etzelmueller, Anne
AU - Favaretto, Gerardo
AU - Zabala, Ane Fullaondo
AU - Kolstrup, Nils
AU - Mancin, Silvia
AU - Mathiassen, Kim
AU - Myrbakk, Vemund Nordnes
AU - Mol, Mayke
AU - Jimenez, Jordi Piera
AU - Power, Kevin
AU - van Schaik, Anneke
AU - Wright, Chris
AU - Zanalda, Enrico
AU - Pederson, Claus Duedal
AU - Smit, Jan
AU - Riper, Heleen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The Authors.
PY - 2015/11/1
Y1 - 2015/11/1
N2 - Background: Depressive disorder is a major societal challenge. Despite the availability of clinically and cost-effective treatments including Internet interventions, the number of patients receiving treatment is limited. Evidence-based Internet interventions promise wide availability and high efficiency of treatments. However, these interventions often do not enter routine mental healthcare delivery at a large scale. The MasterMind project aims to provide insight into the factors that promote or hinder the uptake and implementation of evidence-based Internet interventions by mental healthcare practice. Internet-based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (iCBT) and videoconferencing facilitating collaborative care (ccVC) will be implemented in routine mental healthcare. The services will be offered to 5230 depressed adults in 15 European regions. The current paper describes the evaluation protocol for this large-scale implementation project. Design: Current summative evaluation study follows a naturalistic one-group pretest-posttest design and assesses three distinct stakeholders: patients, mental healthcare professionals, and mental healthcare organisations. The Model for Assessment of Telemedicine applications (MAST) will be employed to structure the implementation and evaluation study. The primary focal points of interest are reach, clinical effect, acceptability, appropriateness, implementation costs, and sustainability of the interventions in practice. Mixed-methods are used to provide an understanding of what (quantitative) the implementation projects have achieved and their meaning to various stakeholders (qualitative). Discussion: The use of Internet interventions in routine practice is limited. MasterMind attempts to bridge the gap between routine practice and effectiveness research by evaluating the implementation of evidence-based Internet interventions for depressive disorders in routine mental healthcare settings in Europe.
AB - Background: Depressive disorder is a major societal challenge. Despite the availability of clinically and cost-effective treatments including Internet interventions, the number of patients receiving treatment is limited. Evidence-based Internet interventions promise wide availability and high efficiency of treatments. However, these interventions often do not enter routine mental healthcare delivery at a large scale. The MasterMind project aims to provide insight into the factors that promote or hinder the uptake and implementation of evidence-based Internet interventions by mental healthcare practice. Internet-based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (iCBT) and videoconferencing facilitating collaborative care (ccVC) will be implemented in routine mental healthcare. The services will be offered to 5230 depressed adults in 15 European regions. The current paper describes the evaluation protocol for this large-scale implementation project. Design: Current summative evaluation study follows a naturalistic one-group pretest-posttest design and assesses three distinct stakeholders: patients, mental healthcare professionals, and mental healthcare organisations. The Model for Assessment of Telemedicine applications (MAST) will be employed to structure the implementation and evaluation study. The primary focal points of interest are reach, clinical effect, acceptability, appropriateness, implementation costs, and sustainability of the interventions in practice. Mixed-methods are used to provide an understanding of what (quantitative) the implementation projects have achieved and their meaning to various stakeholders (qualitative). Discussion: The use of Internet interventions in routine practice is limited. MasterMind attempts to bridge the gap between routine practice and effectiveness research by evaluating the implementation of evidence-based Internet interventions for depressive disorders in routine mental healthcare settings in Europe.
KW - Depression
KW - EMental health
KW - Evidence-based
KW - Implementation
KW - Internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy
KW - Routine practice
KW - Telemedicine
KW - Up-scaling
KW - Videoconferencing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84945909369&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.invent.2015.10.002
DO - 10.1016/j.invent.2015.10.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84945909369
SN - 2214-7829
VL - 2
SP - 399
EP - 409
JO - Internet Interventions
JF - Internet Interventions
IS - 4
ER -