Psychosocial Treatment for Women With Depression and Pain

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Depression; Pelvic Pain
• Interventions: Behavioral: Interpersonal Therapy for Pain (IPT-P); Behavioral: Enhanced Support and Connection to Counseling

• Registration Number: NCT00895999
• Lead Sponsor: University of Rochester

Brief Summary

Patients with depression and pain have poorer outcomes in response to depression treatments than depressed patients without pain. While psychotherapy treatment studies have demonstrated improvement in pain and depression, no psychosocial interventions have been developed and tested prospectively specifically for patients with both conditions. Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), an effective treatment for depression, has been adapted successfully for physically ill patients and demonstrates good adherence, treatment satisfaction, and depression outcomes. The investigators propose to test a modified form of IPT-P for depressed patients with co-morbid pain.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2007-03
• Study First Submitted: 2009-05-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-05-08
• Study First Posted: 2009-05-11
• Primary Completion: 2011-09
• Study Completion: 2011-12
• Status Verified: 2014-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-03-12
• Last Update Posted: 2014-03-14

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

• major depression
• chronic pelvic pain

Exclusion Criteria

• current or past psychosis
• moderate mental retardation or greater
• active suicidal intent
• active abuse of non-prescribed substances (< 3 months)
• current individual psychotherapy
• current pregnancy
• terminal illness
• inability to communicate in English
• men

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
1	Interpersonal Therapy for Pain (IPT-P)	Female patients (n=30) who meet criteria for major depression and chronic pelvic pain will be randomly assigned to 8 individual sessions of IPT adapted for depression and pain.
2	Enhanced Support and Connection to Counseling	Female patients (n=30) who meet criteria for major depression and chronic pelvic pain will be randomly assigned to Enhanced Support and Connection to Counseling (ESCC).

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
A self-report measure BDI and a clinician measure HRSD will evaluate depression severity. These measures are standards in primary care depression trials and in pain studies and have demonstrated sensitivity to detect changes in depress	0, 12 wks, 24 wks, 36 wks

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Rochester Medical Center; 🇺🇸 Rochester, New York, United States