Online Self-help for Depressed Patients Awaiting Psychotherapy

Not Applicable

Terminated

• Conditions: Major Depressive Disorder
• Interventions: Other: Online self-help

• Registration Number: NCT01226238
• Lead Sponsor: University of Luebeck

Brief Summary

Patients with major depression who are on a waiting list for psychotherapy usually suffer from considerable symptoms. Online self-help is one potential way to alleviate this suffering. The investigators want to study if patients awaiting psychotherapy benefit from online-self help. The investigators therefore randomly assign patients to either online self-help or no intervention and assess their depressive symptoms on a regular basis. The investigators hypothesize that online self-help will be superior to no intervention in alleviating depressive symptoms in depressed patients awaiting psychotherapy.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-10
• Study First Submitted: 2010-10-20
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-10-21
• Study First Posted: 2010-10-22
• Primary Completion: 2011-06
• Status Verified: 2014-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-06-25
• Last Update Posted: 2014-06-26

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: TERMINATED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 230

Inclusion Criteria

• Major Depressive Disorder
• stable medication
• 18yrs. or older

Exclusion Criteria

• current psychotherapy
• acute suicidality
• unavailability of internet connection

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Online self-help	Online self-help	Provision of online self-help while waiting for psychotherapy

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Depressive Symptomatology	up to 16 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Depressive Symptomatology	6 weeks, up to 10 months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

MVZ Falkenried; 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany