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CBT Depression Intervention for Co-Occurring Chronic Headache

NCT02870725 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 22

Last updated 2017-07-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Having co-occurring depression and chronic headaches is challenging and can greatly impact one's professional, personal, family, and social life. People living with chronic headaches are often at a greater risk of having comorbid psychiatric disorders (depression, anxiety), reduced quality of life, and impaired functioning because of under-diagnosis, misdiagnosis or under-treatment of both chronic conditions.

This study is a pilot clinical trial that will compare the effectiveness of a brief cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) depression intervention to a care as usual (control) group. The aim of the study is to determine how well the CBT intervention will reduce the frequency, severity and level of disability of both the headaches and depression symptoms.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

CBT Individual Psychotherapy

The 4-session CBT treatment will include receipt of a manualized cognitive behavioral intervention, delivered individually, to treat the depression symptoms (e.g. cognitive restructuring, behavioral activation) and teach adaptive coping strategies to manage their depression. Ideally, the intervention will also positively affect their chronic headaches (i.e. reduction of headache frequency, severity and level of disability). Each session is approximately 60 minutes with specific, reflective and guided activities related to a specific module within the intervention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Henry Ford Health System

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Georgia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Bernadette D Heckman, PhD · University of Georiga

  • Benilda P Pooser · University of Georgia, VP office for research

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-11-30
Primary Completion
2017-06-22
Completion
2017-07-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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