Testing the Effectiveness of a psychotherapeutic method based on spatial cognition and imagination therapy to reduce the distress of moderate depression.

Withdrawn

Conditions: moderate depression
10027946

Registration Number: NL-OMON48422

Lead Sponsor: Society for Mental Space Psychology

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Withdrawn

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

Clients will be found by the therapists. They may use there regular network or add something extra like a message on social media. All clients that can be the regular visitors of the private practice are included.

Exclusion Criteria

The clients will be counted out of the study, when they undergo other treatments for the same complaints: like other forms of psychotherapy, medication or other alternative treatments. Also, when they score above the cut-off on the (pre) depression test they will be afterwards taken out of the sample.

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>The nil-hypothesis is, that there will be no diffrerence in the reduction of<br /><br>the amount of depressive complaints as measured on the 10 points scale and the<br /><br>Beck Depression Inventory for the treated and non-treated group after 30 days<br /><br>after the first moment of measurement.<br /><br><br /><br>Beside that, this design results in two effect measurements after 30 days.<br /><br><br /><br>The sought for outcome is the measurable amount of therapeutic effect above<br /><br>spontanious reduction (placebo) of the complainst.</p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>Along side of the evaluation of the effectiveness of the intervention, the<br /><br>further acqusition of insight in the reliability of dark areas in mental space<br /><br>as a diagnostic tool in relation to depression. The amount of reliability and<br /><br>validity thereoff to monitor the amount of depresiveness and the progress of<br /><br>the therapy will be an important step towards a mental spatial form of<br /><br>psychiatric diagnosis: what can become an instrument adjacent to symptom based<br /><br>types of diagnosis like the DSM.</p><br>