Relief of Chronic or Resistant Depression (Re-ChORD): A pragmatic, randomized, open-treatment trial of an integrative program intervention for chronic depression
Background: Chronic depression is a particularly disabling mood disorder and treatment outcomes are poor with either psychotherapy or pharmacotherapy alone. There is growing evidence that an integrative treatment approach may be optimal. A novel multi-modal, multi-disciplinary treatment program, Re-ChORD, was developed at the University of British Columbia and evaluated in this pilot study. Method