Third Party Funds Group - Sub project
Acronym: WARD-BP
Start date : 01.07.2014
End date : 30.06.2017
Web-based interventions offer a promising approach for the integration of psychosocial interventions in patients´ daily life and to promote flexible depression interventions. Web-based depression interventions have proven to be efficacious and effective for the treatment of depressive disorders. Several studies demonstrate the effectiveness also for the subpopulation of patients with physical diseases and depressive disorders. However, no studies on the evaluation of the effectiveness of a web-based depression intervention for back pain patients have been found. Accordingly, the project aims to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a guided web-based depression intervention for patients with back pain and depression (WARD-BP), thereby focusing on the health care system relevant interface of rehabilitative aftercare.