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Social Interaction and Compassion in Depression

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Depression
Couples (Persons)
Registration Number
NCT03080025
Lead Sponsor
Heidelberg University
Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine how a CBCT® (Cognitively Based Compassion-Training) for couples affect aspects of health and especially social interactions in depressed female patients and their romantic partners. compare healthy and depressed couples during an instructed positive real-time social interaction in the laboratory.

Furthermore the investigators aim to examine how social behavior and psychobiological indicators of health during real-time social interaction in the laboratory might be improved through CBCT® for couples.

Detailed Description

Objects:

Will a CBCT® (Cognitively Based Compassion-Training) for couples reduce the depressive symptomatic and the partners´ burden as well as improve behavioral, endocrine, physiological and immune responses during a real time social interaction in the laboratory.

Do couples with a depressed female partner differ from healthy control couples in behavioral, endocrine, physiological and immune responses during a instructed positive real-time social interaction in a laboratory setting?

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
140
Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Eye gaze patterns4 weeks after recruitment and 12 weeks after first test

Changes in eye gaze patterns (total fixation time \& fixation count) as behavioural component measured during standardised positive social interaction- pre \& post training.

Circadian variation pattern of heart rate variability4 weeks after recruitment and 12 weeks after first test

Changes in circadian variation pattern of heart rate variability pre \& post training.

Depressive symptoms4 weeks after recruitment and 12 weeks after first test

Change in depression score (observer rating Hamilton Depression Rating Scale \[HDRS\], self-rating Becks Depression Inventory \[BDI\]) after CBCT® (Cognitively Based Compassion Training) for couples in comparison to control TAU-group (treatment as usual).

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Analysis of psychometrical self- and observer rating und their correlations4 weeks after recruitment and 12 weeks after first test

Self- and observer ratings are:

Berliner Social Support Skalen (BSSS) Compassionate Love Scale (CLS) Empathy Quotient (EQ) EuroQol five dimensions questionnaire (EQ5D) Evaluation of Social Systems (EVOS) UCLA-LS (HES) Inventory Interpersonal Probleme (IIP) Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills (KIMS) Partner Burden in Depression (PBD) Partnership Questionnaire (PFB) Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) Self Compassion Scale (SCS) Trier Inventar zum chronischen Stress (TICS)

Biopsychological concomitants of depressive disorders4 weeks after recruitment and 12 weeks after first test

Saliva cortisol \& alpha amylase, HbA1c, immune reactivity (Interleukin 1 beta \[IL1b\], Interleukin 6 \[IL6\], C-reactive protein \[CRP\]) and in epigenetical parameters (OXTR, SLC6A4) pre \& post training.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Institut of Medical Psychology at the Center for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg

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Heidelberg, Germany

Institut of Medical Psychology at the Center for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg
🇩🇪Heidelberg, Germany

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