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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Intervention to Treat Depression in Individuals With a Traumatic Brain Injury

NCT00745940 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 105

Last updated 2014-03-28

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is effective in reducing depression symptoms in individuals who have experienced a traumatic brain injury.

The investigators hypothesize that participants who are given the ten-week intervention will have fewer depression symptoms than the participants in the control group, and this improvement will be maintained at the three-month follow-up assessment.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

MBCT for TBI

Subjects will participate in a 10-week Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Program led by two trained facilitators. Weekly one-and-a-half hour group sessions will guide subjects through exercises such as meditation, awareness, and breathing techniques aimed at developing skills to help with tension, stress, anxiety and depression. Subjects will be encouraged to practice skills at home and in daily life.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Lakehead University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Michel Bédard, PhD · Lakehead University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-11-30
Primary Completion
2012-05-31
Completion
2012-05-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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