Table 1 Description of the interventions received by the patients in each 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.