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Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Web-based Treatment Program for Depression for the Reduction of Depressive Symptoms

NCT01401296 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2014-12-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

200 persons with depression are recruited via internet depression forums devoted to depression and are randomly assigned either to the online program deprexis or to a wait-list control condition. All participants receive free-of-charge online access to deprexis either immediately or with an eight week delay.

Prior to intervention and eight weeks later, both groups are assessed via an anonymous online survey which was implemented using the software package OPST®. The survey consists of different questionnaires. The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) represents the primary outcome. It is assumed that the severity of depressive symptoms will improve to a significantly greater extent in the deprexis than in the wait-list control condition in the course of eight weeks.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Deprexis

Behavioral: Deprexis (10 sessions) delivered online versus wait-list control group

BEHAVIORAL

Wait-list

Behavioral: the wait-list group receives Deprexis after 8 weeks

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Steffen Mortz, PhD · Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-05-31
Primary Completion
2012-09-30
Completion
2012-09-30

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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