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Record W4412617285 · doi:10.1080/13607863.2025.2531117

An implementation demonstration of Engage, a behavioral intervention for depression, in a geriatric mental health care setting

2025· article· en· W4412617285 on OpenAlexafffund
Matthew Schurr, Emily M. Post, Julia Baxter, Christina Gojmerac, Brenna N. Renn

Bibliographic record

VenueAging & Mental Health · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHealth Policy Implementation Science
Canadian institutionsMcMaster UniversitySt. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton
FundersMcMaster University
KeywordsDepression (economics)Mental healthIntervention (counseling)PsychologyMental health careGeriatric carePsychiatryGerontologyClinical psychologyMedicineNursing

Abstract

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OBJECTIVES: Engage is an empirically-supported brief behavioral intervention for later-life depression yet to translate from randomized controlled trials to implementation. This study evaluated a real-world implementation demonstration of Engage across a geriatric mental health care setting. METHOD: The exploration, preparation, implementation, sustainment framework guided this demonstration. Interprofessional case managers received training and ongoing consultation in Engage and applied it with older adults with depression over four months. Upon completion of the implementation trial, providers participated in a 1-h focus group to provide feedback about training, treatment perceptions, and facilitators and barriers to implementation. Focus group transcripts were double-coded using thematic analysis to extract themes informed by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR). RESULTS: = 21 provider participant respondents) related to CFIR constructs of innovation adaptability, innovation design, critical incidents, compatibility, access to knowledge and information, need, and capability. Findings suggest that Engage is feasible and fits the needs of providers, patients, and the healthcare system. Implementation barriers included depressive symptom burden, patient complexity, and therapist concerns related to self-efficacy and previous experiences. CONCLUSION: Provider feedback can inform and strengthen implementation of evidence-based psychotherapies such as Engage.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.014
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.027
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.074

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0140.027
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0020.004
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.192
GPT teacher head0.671
Teacher spread0.480 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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