Anxiety and Depression Change Package Key Drivers and Interventions

The Anxiety and Depression ECHO project aimed to improve screening, assessment, and follow-up procedures for behavioral and mental health care, specifically around anxiety and depression. The project focused on care for patients aged 8–21 years and used quality improvement methodology to support measurable, practice-level changes. 

Key drivers are broad, evidence-based and best-practice actions that can be useful in the development of more specific ideas for changes that lead to improvement and are paired with interventions.

Interventions are specific ideas for changing a process; they can be rapidly tested on a small scale to determine whether they result in improvements in a particular context or environment. To support making changes, evidence or practice-based tools and resources were paired with the intervention(s).