The Effects of a Cognitively-based Compassion Training on Health and Social Interaction in Depressed Patients and Their Partners
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Depression
- Sponsor
- Heidelberg University
- Enrollment
- 140
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Eye gaze patterns
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 4 years ago
Overview
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?
Investigators
Beate Ditzen
Prof. Dr. phil. Dipl.- Psych. Beate Ditzen
Heidelberg University
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Eye gaze patterns
Time Frame: 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
Time Frame: 4 weeks after recruitment and 12 weeks after first test
Changes in circadian variation pattern of heart rate variability pre \& post training.
Depressive symptoms
Time Frame: 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 Outcomes
- Analysis of psychometrical self- and observer rating und their correlations(4 weeks after recruitment and 12 weeks after first test)
- Biopsychological concomitants of depressive disorders(4 weeks after recruitment and 12 weeks after first test)