Internal Versus External Motivation in Referral of Primary Care Patients with Depression to an Internet Support Group: Randomized Controlled Trial

Benjamin W Van Voorhees   ^{1 *} , MD, M.Public Health ;   Robert C Hsiung   ^{2 *} , MD ;   Monika Marko-Holguin   ^{1 *} , MSS ;   Thomas K Houston   ^{3, 4} , MD, M.Public Health ;   Joshua Fogel   ⁵ , Ph.D ;   Royce Lee   ⁶ , MD ;   Daniel E Ford   ⁷ , MD, M.Public Health

¹ Section of General Pediatrics Department of Pediatrics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

² Dr. Bob LLC, Chicago, IL, United States

³ Division of Health Informatics and Implementation Science, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States

⁴ eHealth QUERI, Bedford VA Medical Center, Bedford, MA, United States

⁵ Department of Finance and Business Management, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY, United States

⁶ Department of Psychiatry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

⁷ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, United States

*these authors contributed equally