Cognitive, Psychological and Electrophysiological Attributes to Suicide Among Depressed Patients

Mansoura University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Major Depressive Disorder; Quantitative EEG (qEEG); Suicide

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Quantitative EEG

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04104698

MD.18.08.81

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will try to provide a better understanding of the psychological, cognitive and electrophysiological factors that contribute to suicide in depressed patients.

Full description

Objectives:

1. To investigate the ability of qEEG to suspect suicidal potential in patients diagnosed with major depression.
2. To test the ability of some psychological and cognitive elements in determining the likelihood of suicide in such patients.
3. To give an objective and more reliable method than traditional questionnaires to assess the seriousness of suicidal ideations in patients suffering from depression who usually don't reveal their actual intentions.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age between 16 and 65 years
• Both males and females will be enrolled
• Patients present with the clinical picture of Major depression according to DSM 5 criteria.

Exclusion criteria

• Psychotic features associating depressive episode
• Bipolar depression
• The condition is due to another medical condition
• The condition is substance or medication-induced
• Intellectual disability
• Comorbid epilepsy

Trial design

50 participants in 2 patient groups

Study Group (MDD with SIs)

Description:

25 Egyptian patients diagnosed with major depression (with suicidal ideations)

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Quantitative EEG

Control group (MDD without SIs)

Description:

25 Egyptian patients diagnosed with major depression (without suicidal ideations)

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Quantitative EEG