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Behavioral Activation and Emotion-focused Interventions in the Treatment of Depression

NCT06023732 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 7

Last updated 2026-05-11

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Summary

The study is a single-case intervention study, evaluating effects of the treatment Behavioral activation and emotion-focused interventions for depression.

Research question and hypothesis

1. What is the effect of behavioural activation and emotion-focused interventions on patients' ratings of depressive symptoms, behavioural activation and emotion regulation difficulties?
2. What is the effect of behavioural activation and emotion-focused interventions on patients' overall psychiatric state, with regards to ratings of anxiety, quality of life, level of functioning?
3. How does patient ratings of behavioural activation and emotion regulation difficulties and skills change during the course of treatment, in relation to treatment/session content?

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Behavioral activation and emotion-focused interventions

Behavioral activation with emotion-focused interventions comprises two consecutive phases. In the first phase, treatment focus is behavioral activation in line with Brief behavioral activation treatment for depression - revised (BATD-R; 11) During the second phase, treatment focus shifts to address participants' emotions. Difficulties in understanding, tolerating, and labeling emotions is addressed by observing and describing emotions (12). Under the guidance of the therapist, participants are instructed to explore emotions normally avoided or ruminated on. This is conceptualized as a form of exposure to aversive emotions, thoughts and memories, to initiate emotional processing (13).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Region Stockholm

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Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-09-01
Primary Completion
2024-10-07
Completion
2025-10-21

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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Diseases

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