Study setting
depression, emotional disorders, Anxiety, anxiety
DISORDER
PROVIDE-B recruited 50 participants with depression and/or anxiety from five primary care practices in the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg in Southern Germany [The patients were recruited via their PCPs during regular visits. Based on their clinical judgment, the PCPs prospectively selected individuals suspected to be affected by depression or anxiety and presented the study to them by offering informational material. To screen them objectively, we then conducted standardized Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews using the Patient Health Questionnaire 9 and the General Anxiety Disorder 7instrument [Patients in the intervention group were scheduled at biweekly intervals for up to five sessions lasting 50 min each. The intervention followed a transdiagnostic treatment approach for emotional disorders [