Internet-delivered Psychotherapy for Depression (PsiTOD)

West University of Timisoara

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Mild - Major Depression

Treatments: Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02091856

WUTimisoara-PsiTOD

Details and patient eligibility

About

Project aim: To compare the effectiveness and acceptability of a conventional and a religious internet-supported cognitive behavior therapy (iCBT) for depression in Romania.

Full description

Previous studies suggest that incorporating religious beliefs into conventional CBT appears to be helpful for religious individuals. In order to have two active comparable interventions the investigators added to the conventional CBT a similar set of exercises devised from the positive psychology paradigm.

Enrollment: 79 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• be fluent in Romanian
• be over 18 years
• have a diagnosis of current major depression disorder
• have access to an Internet connected computer

Exclusion criteria

• suicidal ideation
• ongoing psychological treatment for depression
• other primary disorder that need treatment
• obstacle to participation (i.e., long travel plans)
• recent change in psychiatric medication (i.e., during the last 6 weeks)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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79 participants in 3 patient groups

Conventional-CBT (C-CBT)

Experimental group

Description:

This arm represents the classical Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) approach for major depression disorder (MDD) plus a set of exercises devised from the mindfulness paradigm.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Religious CBT (R-CBT)

Experimental group

Description:

This arm represents the classical Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) approach for major depression disorder (MDD) plus a set of exercises devised from the general Christian belief.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Wait List Control Group (WLCG)

No Intervention group

Description:

This arm represents the wait-list comparison group.