Metacognitive Training Program With Depression (DMKT)

Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Depression

Treatments: Behavioral: Metacognitive Training Program during mild to moderate depression

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02415426

D-MKT - 2014-0421

Details and patient eligibility

About

The participants of this study have been diagnosed with mild to moderate depression with no evidence of suicidal actions prior to recruitment. All recruited subjects receive standard therapy and participate in a metacognitive training program (D-MKT) independently of study participation. Diagnostic and therapeutical interventions are not part of this study. As part of this study, the change of cognitive and psychosocial achievement/behavior in patients with mild to moderate depression after taking part in the training program is being investigated. The training program seeks to enable group members to recognize and correct the often automatic and unconscious thought patterns that accompany depression, in part by viewing this depressive thought process at a distance (i.e., depersonalizing). In addition, dysfunctional assumptions about one's thought processes, as well as dysfunctional coping-strategies (i.e., thought suppression, rumination as problem-solving) are targeted (Lena Jelinek & Steffen Moritz, http://clinical-neuropsychology.de/metacognitive_training_for_depression.html). Within this study the cognitive and psychosocial behaviour changes are being investigated by neuropsychological assessment as well as questionnaires.

Enrollment: 2 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 55+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participation in the Metacognitive Training Program
• Subjects with an age over 55 years and a diagnosed mild to moderate depression without psychotic Symptoms (F32, F33)
• Subjects have to be able to understand verbal and written information regarding treatment and procedures of the study.
• Subjects have to be able to understand and perform verbal and written tasks (cognitive tests/questionnaires).
• No evidence of suicidal tendency

Exclusion criteria

• Taking of medication or drugs that could influence cognition
• Diseases that prevent the subject from giving consent to this study or affect the collaboration during the examination
• Major and/or unstable physical diseases
• Strongly impaired vision/eye diseases
• Psychotic or manic symptoms
• Benzodiazepine addiction/dependency
• Suicidal tendency