Effectiveness of Internet-based Depression Treatment (EVIDENT) in Severe Depression

University of Luebeck

Status

Completed

Conditions

Severe Depressive Symptoms

Treatments

Behavioral: Deprexis

Other: CAU

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02178631

EVIDENTplus

Details and patient eligibility

About

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 severe 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 six months period. The investigators hypothesise that online self-help is superior to the control condition in alleviating depressive symptoms and preventing full blown depression.

Enrollment

163 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Age between 18 and 65, ability to read German, willingness to participate in a telephone diagnostic interview, achieving a score of at least 15 on the PHQ-9 in an initial screening, and providing written informed consent

Exclusion criteria

Lifetime diagnosis of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder (as determined by a telephone diagnostic interview) or current suicidality (as determined in a telephone interview)