Efficacy of a blended low-intensity internet-delivered psychological programme in patients with multimorbidity in primary care: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Table 2 Study variables

Instrument	Assessment area	Time to assessment	Applied by
PHQ-9 (40, 41)	Severity of depression	Baseline and follow-up sessions^a	Researcher A phone Online (follow-up sessions^a)
Glycosylated haemoglobin	Diabetes control	Baseline and follow-up sessions^a	Online
FPS-R [42]	Pain intensity	Baseline and follow-up sessions^a	Online
Roland-Morris Scale [43,44,45,46]	Physical limitation	Baseline and follow-up sessions^a	Online
MINI [47]	Psychiatric diagnosis	Baseline	Researcher A phone
Sociodemographic data	Gender, age, marital status, education, occupation, economical level	Baseline	Researcher A phone
SF-12 Health Survey [48, 49]	Health-related quality of life	Baseline and follow-up sessions^a	Online
CRSI [39, 50]	Health and social services use	Baseline and 6 months post-treatment	Researcher A phone (Baseline) Researcher B phone (6 months post-treatment)
EQ-5D-3 L [51, 52]	Quality of life related to health	Baseline and follow-up sessions^a	Online
OFS [53]		Baseline and follow-up sessions^a	Online

PHQ-9 Patient Health Questionnaire, FPS-R Faces Pain Scale –Revised, MINI Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview, CSRI Client Service Receipt Inventory, EQ-5D-3 L EuroQol-5D-3 L, OFS Openness to the Future Scale
^aFollow-up sessions: post-treatment, 3 and 6 post-treatment months

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