Effectiveness of Internet-based Depression Treatment (EVIDENT)

University of Luebeck

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mild to Moderate Depressive Symptoms

Treatments: Behavioral: Deprexis

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01636752

EVIDENT Trial

Details and patient eligibility

About

Care for people suffering from depressive symptoms should be given in a step-wise approach. One first step can be the provision of self-help material. Online self-help is an innovative way of providing self-help. The investigators want to study the effect of an interactive online self-help-program (Deprexis) in the treatment of mild to moderate depressive symptoms. Participants will be randomised to either twelve weeks of online-self help or a waiting-list control. Symptoms of depression and other aspects will be assessed over a one year period. Thereafter the controls will also receive online-self help. The investigators hypothesise that online self-help is superior to the control condition in alleviating depressive symptoms and preventing full blown depression.

Full description

This study is supported by the German Ministry of Health (BMG) and is a collaborative project of Universität Bern (PD Dr. Thomas Berger), Charité Berlin (PD Dr. Matthias Rose), Universität Bielefeld (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Greiner), Universität Hamburg (Prof. Dr. Steffen Moritz, Prof. Dr. Bernd Löwe), GAIA AG Hamburg (Dr. Björn Meyer), Universität Tübingen (Prof. Dr. Martin Hautzinger) and Universität Trier (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lutz).

Enrollment: 1,013 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• PHQ>4 and <15

Exclusion criteria

• acute suicidality
• psychotic d/o, bipolar d/o or other severe psychiatric d/o

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

---

1,013 participants in 2 patient groups

Deprexis

Experimental group

Description:

Online self-help with and without e-mail-support

Treatment:

Behavioral: Deprexis

Control

No Intervention group