Social Interaction and Compassion in Depression
- Conditions
- DepressionCouples (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
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Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Eye gaze patterns 4 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 variability 4 weeks after recruitment and 12 weeks after first test Changes in circadian variation pattern of heart rate variability pre \& post training.
Depressive symptoms 4 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
Name Time Method Analysis of psychometrical self- and observer rating und their correlations 4 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 disorders 4 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.
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Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Institut of Medical Psychology at the Center for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg
🇩🇪Heidelberg, Germany
Institut of Medical Psychology at the Center for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg🇩🇪Heidelberg, Germany