Brief inpatient treatment continued by videoconference based psychotherapy for patients with chronic major depressio
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- major chronic depressionF33Recurrent depressive disorder
- Registration Number
- DRKS00009874
- Lead Sponsor
- Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie. Uniklinik Freiburg
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting stopped after recruiting started
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 6
Inclusion Criteria
diagnosis of Chronic Depression
- Hamilton Rating Scale of Depression (HRSD-24) score>20
- in ongoing medical/psychiatric care
- age 18-70 years
- fluent in German language
- technical requirements (Internet access)
- informed consent
- treatment resistance (no response to two or more adequate trials of antidepressants and/or no response to at least two health-insurance-reimbursed psychotherapies with at least 22 sessions each).
Exclusion Criteria
- history of bipolar disorder
- substance addiction (less than 3 months clean)
- antisocial or borderline personality disorder
- severe autism
- organic brain disorders
- severe physical illness
- acute risk of suicide or suicide attempt within the last 12 months
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - Questionnaire on feasibility and acceptance. Completed by patients and therapists<br>- Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAMD-24; Hamilton, 1960) T0, T1, T2, T3 (T0 : at admission to station , T1 : at discharge from station , T2 : at end of outpatient therapy , follow-up ( T3 ) : 3 months after completion of outpatient therapy (end of study)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Disorders (T0).<br>- Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (T0).<br>- Beck Depression Inventory (T0-T3).<br>- Clinical Global Impression Scale (T1-T2).<br>- Global Assessment of Functioning Scale (T1-T2).<br>- World Health Organization Quality of Life Instrument (T0-T3).<br>- Impact Message Inventory-R (therapist-patient-relationship) (T1-T2).<br>