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临床试验/NCT01103271
NCT01103271已完成2 期

Harnessing the Placebo Effect in Major Depressive Disorder

Massachusetts General Hospital2 个研究点 分布在 1 个国家目标入组 20 人开始时间: 2010年5月最近更新:
适应症

试验速览

阶段
2 期
状态
已完成
入组人数
20
试验地点
2
主要终点
Feasibility

研究概览

简要总结

Placebo pills (pills with no active ingredients) have been shown in research studies to somehow produce self-healing processes. The purpose of this study is to determine whether people will be willing to enter an open-label non-deceptive placebo treatment for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and whether open-label placebo can be effective for treating MDD in the context of a supportive physician-patient relationship.

研究设计

研究类型
Interventional
分配方式
Randomized
干预模型
Single Group
主要目的
Treatment
盲法
Single (Investigator)

入排标准

年龄范围
18 Years 至 60 Years(Adult)
性别
All
接受健康志愿者

入选标准

  • Men or women aged 18-60 years old.
  • Current Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)

排除标准

  • Pregnant women or women of child bearing potential not using a medically accepted means of contraception.
  • Patients who are a serious suicide or homicide risk.
  • Unstable medical illness including cardiovascular, hepatic, renal, respiratory, endocrine, neurological, or hematological disease.
  • The following Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV diagnoses: 1) organic mental disorders; 2) substance use disorders, including alcohol, active within the last year; 3) schizophrenia; 4) delusional disorder; 5) psychotic disorders not elsewhere classified; 6) bipolar disorder; 7) acute bereavement; 9) severe borderline or antisocial personality disorder; 10) current primary diagnoses of panic disorder, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), or obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) (disorders that present as chief complaint and/or have their onset preceding the onset of major depressive disorder).
  • Uncontrolled seizure disorder.
  • Patients with mood congruent or mood incongruent psychotic features.
  • Current use of other psychotropic drugs. Exception: Patients who have been on a stable dose for 30 days of classes of medications such as non-benzodiazepine sedatives, anxiolytic benzodiazepines, non-narcotic analgesics may be included. Flexibility will be allowed based on physician discretion.
  • Clinical or laboratory evidence of hypothyroidism.
  • Patients who have taken an investigational psychotropic drug within the last year.
  • Patients who have not responded to two or more antidepressant trials of adequate doses (e.g., fluoxetine 40 mg/day or higher) and duration (e.g.,for six weeks or more) over the past five years.
  • Any concomitant form of psychotherapy (depression focused)

结局指标

主要结局

Feasibility

时间窗: One year

The primary outcome measure is feasibility, which was operationalized as the number of in-person screens for this study.

次要结局

  • Pre-Post Efficacy(Screen and 4 weeks (immediate treatment); Baseline and 4 weeks (waitlist treatment))

研究者

申办方类型
Other
责任方
Principal Investigator
主要研究者

Maurizio Fava, MD

Director, Depression Clinical and Research Program

Massachusetts General Hospital

研究点 (2)

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