Comparación de dos estrategias de intervención para el tratamiento de los trastornos depresivos en pacientes oncológicos

• Conditions: Major depressive Disorder, one episode or several episodes.ICD: 296.2x, 296.3x

• Registration Number: EUCTR2006-002880-19-ES
• Lead Sponsor: Servicio de psiquiatria. Hospital Universitario La Paz

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2006-07-14
• Last Update Posted: 21 January 2013

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Authorised-recruitment may be ongoing or finished
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

1.Men and women with a range of age 18-75 years.
2.Diagnosis of colon, breast or lung cancer with a life expectative of more
than one year.
3.Karnofsky index greater or equal to 70
4.diagnosis of Depressive disorder according to criterir DSM-IV
5.Patients with written informed consent to participate in the study after
having been provided a complete description ot the study.

Are the trial subjects under 18? no
Number of subjects for this age range:
F.1.2 Adults (18-64 years) yes
F.1.2.1 Number of subjects for this age range
F.1.3 Elderly (>=65 years) yes
F.1.3.1 Number of subjects for this age range

Exclusion Criteria

1.Acute or chronic organic disorder
2.Psychotic disorder
3.history of drug or alcohol abuse or dependency
4.severe or moderate hepatic or renal disease
5.pregnancy or lactation

Patients will be excluded whenever:
1.the patient express his/her wish to finish the study
2.because of severe side effects
3.because of increasing depressive symptomatology, no response to
antidepressant treatment or serious suicide risk.
4.the patient don´t take the medication or not assissting to the following
visits.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional clinical trial of medicinal product
• Study Design: Not specified