Aims and objectives

Our primary aim is to develop psychosocial strategies to enhance resilience to depression in most affected by the current Greek social and financial crisis vulnerable patients with three long term medical conditions, through a programme of applied clinical research.

  1. To derive estimates of the prevalence of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and its predictors in patients with diabetes, rheumatologic diseases, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as well as in alleged healthy participants,
  2. to develop a ‘clinical prediction rule’ that will identify patients with long term conditions (LTCs) who are vulnerable to the current Greek crisis with respect to MDD development,
  3. to identify factors that promote resilience to MDD, and
  4. to develop an intervention which will enhance resilience and prevent MDD in the era of the current recession
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The project "Assessing and enhancing resilience to depression in people with long term medical conditions in the era of the current Greek social and financial crisis (ASSERT-DEP)”has been co-financed by the European Economic Area (EEA) Financial Mechanism 2009-2014 (EEA GR07/3767) and National funds as part of the program “Dissimilarity, Inequality and Social Integration".