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Table 1.

Description of the interventions received by the patients in each group

Control group	Intervention group
Usual care: received support only in relation to their physical health.	Usual care MI^a: Two sessions of 20-min face-to-face contact. (i) Risks, relevance, rewards, roadblocks, repetition; TTM^b: Three sessions of 30-min face-to-face contact. (i) An introduction to depression and coronary heart disease; (ii) Strategies for management of depression; (iii) Experience in improving depression, situations that may interfere with action, and ways to deal with it. A manual about the management of depression covering all the above mentioned content. (i) TTM-based intervention+MI.

Control group

Intervention group

Usual care: received support only in relation to their physical health.

Usual care

MI^a: Two sessions of 20-min face-to-face contact.

(i) Risks, relevance, rewards, roadblocks, repetition;

TTM^b: Three sessions of 30-min face-to-face contact.

(i) An introduction to depression and coronary heart disease;

(ii) Strategies for management of depression;

(iii) Experience in improving depression, situations that may interfere with action, and ways to deal with it.

A manual about the management of depression covering all the above mentioned content.

(i) TTM-based intervention+MI.

^aMI motivational interviewing, ^bTTM transtheoretical model