This proposal is for a K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award. The applicant is a nurse and a developing investigator in the Cornell Intervention Research Center for Geriatric Mood Disorders. The goal of this application is to provide further training in the conceptual and methodological expertise needed to conduct research aimed at improving the delivery of depression treatment to medically ill, elderly home care recipients. The career goal of this applicant is to become an independent investigator whose research improves the availability and accessibility of services aimed at enhancing the mental health of older home care patients. The training will provide the skills and the opportunity to learn about; a) home care agency organization and mental health service delivery; b) mental health home care reimbursement incentives and regulations for physicians and agencies; c) theories of behavior change and how to incorporate these theories into research design; d) research methodology for designing, implementing, and analyzing scientifically rigorous community based mental health treatment intervention studies. The nursing intervention research proposed focuses on clinician and system barriers that affect the treatment of late-life depression. The impact, feasibility, and acceptance of the research intervention aimed at improving the delivery of late-life depression treatment will be evaluated. ? ?
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| Brown, Ellen L; Bruce, Martha L (2011) Thank you, CMS, for your leadership! Res Gerontol Nurs 4:78-9 |
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| Brown, Ellen L; Raue, Patrick J; Klimstra, Sibel et al. (2010) An intervention to improve nurse-physician communication in depression care. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 18:483-90 |
| Bruce, Martha L; Brown, Ellen L; Raue, Patrick J et al. (2007) A randomized trial of depression assessment intervention in home health care. J Am Geriatr Soc 55:1793-800 |
| Brown, Ellen; Raue, Patrick; Schulberg, Herbert et al. (2006) Clinical competencies--Caring for late-life depression in home care patients. J Gerontol Nurs 32:10-4 |
| Brown, Ellen L; Bruce, Martha L; Nassisi, Pamela et al. (2004) An agency-university research partnership: focus on late-life depression. Home Healthc Nurse 22:597-600 |
| Brown, Ellen L; Bruce, Martha L; McAvay, Gail J et al. (2004) Recognition of late-life depression in home care: accuracy of the outcome and assessment information set. J Am Geriatr Soc 52:995-9 |
| Brown, Ellen (2003) Depression is more than just an OASIS item. Home Healthc Nurse 21:636 |
