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Trial of Telephone-based Psychotherapy for Depression With and Without Adjunctive Supportive Mail

NCT01770990 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 59

Last updated 2015-07-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study aims to compare the effectiveness of two telephone-based psychotherapy (Tel-PT) interventions for patients with mild to moderate depression. Both interventions consist of one personal session and weekly to bi-weekly 8-10 telephone sessions with a licensed cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist accompanied by the study of educational materials and the completion of regular monitoring questionnaires (total treatment duration: approximately 3 months). Patients are randomized into one of two conditions: Patients in the condition "Tel-PT including mail" additionally receive a motivating letter from their psychotherapist after each telephone session, while patients in the condition "Tel-PT without mail" receive no further interventions. Patients refusing to be randomized are to be assigned to the condition "Tel-PT without mail". This study takes place within a larger study evaluating a stepped care model for depression (01KQ1002B-TP7).

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Tel-PT including mail

Patients receive telephone-based psychotherapy and one letter after each telephone session.

BEHAVIORAL

Tel-PT without mail

Patients receive telephone-based psychotherapy without additional letters.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Birgit Watzke, Prof. Dr. · Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, Department of Medical Psychology, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf , Hamburg, Germany

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-09-30
Primary Completion
2015-04-30
Completion
2015-04-30

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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Diseases

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