How to Cope With Anxiety and Depression. A Randomized Controlled Trial.

University of Aarhus

Status: Completed

Conditions: Self Efficacy; Depression; Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: Self-management programme

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01989247

1-1010-46/1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether citizens experiencing symptoms of anxiety and depression will benefit from a self-management training program with respect to: 1) Self-efficacy, and 2) Symptoms of anxiety and depression, and 3) Self reported measures of Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL)

Full description

• The intervention is a Danish adaption of The Chronic Disease Self-Management Program developed by The Stanford Patient Education Research Center, The Expert Patient Program Community Interest Company (EPPCIC), and The English National Health Service (NHS).
• The Danish adaptation has been performed by The Danish Committee for Health Education.

Enrollment: 853 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• >= 18 years of age
• Suffering from anxiety and/or depressive symptoms
• Voluntary participation

Exclusion criteria

• Potential suicidal behavior
• Potential aggressive behavior
• Significant cognitive impairment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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853 participants in 2 patient groups

Self-management program

Experimental group

Description:

Seven weekly sessions of a group-based self-management programme for people with anxiety and depressive symptoms

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self-management programme

Control group

No Intervention group