Neurobehavioral Therapy For Epilepsy And Major Depressive Disorder

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Major Depressive Disorder; Epilepsy

Treatments: Behavioral: Neurobehavioral therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06695767

H-53437

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to examine the feasibility and acceptability of an online group Neuro-behavioral Therapy (NBT) with text messaging intervention for Veterans with epilepsy and major depressive disorder (MDD).

Enrollment: 16 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• English speaking veterans
• has home internet access
• has access to and familiarity in using a computer or tablet at least weekly
• Asymptomatic patients with chronic conditions
• has access to a mobile device with Short Message Service (SMS) text and picture capability
• has an active clinical diagnosis of major depressive disorder based on the International Classification of Diseases, 10th version (ICD-10)
• has an ICD-10 diagnosis of epilepsy with at least one seizure documented within the last five years

Exclusion criteria

• pregnancy
• Veterans that have current suicidal ideation
• have active psychosis; and have an ICD-10 diagnosis of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures or conversion disorder.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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16 participants in 1 patient group

Neurobehavioral therapy

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Neurobehavioral therapy