Online Self-help for Depressed Patients Awaiting Psychotherapy

University of Luebeck

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Major Depressive Disorder

Treatments: Other: Online self-help

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01226238

Deprexis-HH-HL-WL

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients with major depression who are on a waiting list for psychotherapy usually suffer from considerable symptoms. Online self-help is one potential way to alleviate this suffering. The investigators want to study if patients awaiting psychotherapy benefit from online-self help. The investigators therefore randomly assign patients to either online self-help or no intervention and assess their depressive symptoms on a regular basis. The investigators hypothesize that online self-help will be superior to no intervention in alleviating depressive symptoms in depressed patients awaiting psychotherapy.

Enrollment: 230 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Major Depressive Disorder
• stable medication
• 18yrs. or older

Exclusion criteria

• current psychotherapy
• acute suicidality
• unavailability of internet connection

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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230 participants in 2 patient groups

Online self-help

Experimental group

Description:

Provision of online self-help while waiting for psychotherapy

Treatment:

Other: Online self-help

Waiting list alone

No Intervention group

Description:

Waiting for psychotherapy alone