Meditation Based Lifestyle Modification in Depression (MBLM-D)

Diakonie Kliniken Zschadraß

Status: Completed

Conditions: Depressive Disorder

Treatments: Other: Multimodal specific treatment:; Behavioral: Meditation Based Lifestyle Modification; Other: Minimal treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03652220

MBLM-D

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate effectiveness of a 8-week behavioral Mind-Body-Intervention based on Yoga and Meditation in depressive outpatients.

Full description

As a contribution to the field of Integral Medicine, Meditation Based Lifestyle Modification (MBLM) is a holistic therapy for patients with mental disorders. Influenced by Ayurveda and Yoga, it uses mantra meditation, ethical conduct and healthy life style to promote physical, mental and spiritual health. MBLM explains processes within the body and the mind and their relation to diet, exercise, biorhythms, social and personal conduct in an easy but profound way and on an experiential level. Besides providing tools for physical, mental and emotional self-regulation, MBLM lays ground for personal growth and transcendence of the mind. It is intended to be implemented in groups of patients as well as individual daily training, and because of its modular structure can be adjusted in intensity, duration and weighting of the components according to the specific needs and disorders to be addressed. This makes it also eligible for its potential use in prevention of mental disease and treatment of psychic comorbidities in patients with chronic somatic illness.

Enrollment: 81 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Subjects must meet the following criteria to be enrolled:

1. Outpatients
2. Written informed consent by patients who are competent to consent to study participation
3. Diagnosis of current mild or moderate episode of depression diagnosed by a consultant psychiatrist
4. Male or female ≥18 years of age
5. BDI-II >= 10
6. Patients must be physically able to perform simple Yoga postures and to sit silently for 20 minutes

Exclusion criteria

Patients will be excluded for ANY ONE of the following reasons:

1. Psychotic Symptoms
2. Acute suicidal tendencies
3. Compulsive disorders
4. Cerebro-organic diseases with clinically relevant symptoms
5. Severe multimorbidity
6. Clinically relevant addictions (tobacco abuse or addiction is allowed)
7. Current participation in another trial

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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81 participants in 3 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

8 weeks Minimal treatment + MBLM 16 weeks Multimodal specific treatment + MBLM Consolidation Definitions Minimal treatment: drug continuation under medical supervision Multimodal specific treatment: Drugs / Psychotherapy / Excercise therapy / Ergotherapy / Relaxation; excl. Yoga, Mantra, MBSR MBLM: 8-week course Meditation Based Lifestyle Modification MBLM-Consolidation: weekly Mantra-Meditation, monthly Life-Ethics

Treatment:

Behavioral: Meditation Based Lifestyle Modification

Control I

Active Comparator group

Description:

8 weeks Minimal treatment 16 weeks Multimodal specific treatment Definitions Minimal treatment: drug continuation under medical supervision Multimodal specific treatment: Drugs / Psychotherapy / Excercise therapy / Ergotherapy / Relaxation; excl. Yoga, Mantra, MBSR MBLM: 8-week course Meditation Based Lifestyle Modification MBLM-Consolidation: weekly Mantra-Meditation, monthly Life-Ethics

Treatment:

Other: Multimodal specific treatment:

Other: Minimal treatment

Control 2

Active Comparator group

Description:

Definitions 24 weeks Multimodal specific treatment Minimal treatment: drug continuation under medical supervision Multimodal specific treatment: Drugs / Psychotherapy / Excercise therapy / Ergotherapy / Relaxation; excl. Yoga, Mantra, MBSR MBLM: 8-week course Meditation Based Lifestyle Modification MBLM-Consolidation: weekly Mantra-Meditation, monthly Life-Ethics

Treatment:

Other: Multimodal specific treatment: