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Psychotherapy and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Depression

NCT02787148 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2021-07-28

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Summary

Prospective studies indicate that patients with depression are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease. Depression is also associated with a number of hemodynamic features, which are known risk factors for cardiovascular morbidity such as increased heart rate, reduced heart rate variability and blood pressure alterations. These hemodynamic alterations may explain in part the increased cardiovascular risk associated with depression.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether treatment for depression with cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is effective in reducing hemodynamic cardiovascular risk factors. Hemodynamic assessments including heart rate, heart rate variability, continues blood pressure, blood pressure variability, baroreceptor sensitivity and peripheral vascular resistance will be conducted at baseline, after treatment and 2-month follow up. In addition, circadian hemodynamic variations such as 24-hour heart rate variability, nocturnal blood pressure dipping and immunological biomarkers will be assessed. Eighty patients with Major Depression will be randomly assigned to either a CBT treatment condition (14 hour-long, weekly sessions) or a waitlist condition, to control for potential changes in hemodynamic parameters without any intervention and the impact of repeated-measurement.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive behavioral therapy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Philipps University Marburg

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Frank Euteneuer, PhD · Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychothearpy, Philipps University of Marburg

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-10-31
Primary Completion
2019-10-31
Completion
2019-10-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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