Stress Reduction Intervention for Enhancing Treatment Outcome for Depressed Minority Patients

Trina E. Chang, MD

Status: Completed

Conditions: Major Depressive Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Psychoeducation; Behavioral: Psychoeducation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00998959

2008p001576

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the usefulness of a stress reduction treatment in helping minority patients with major depression get better. Subjects will receive six weeks of either mindfulness-based stress reduction and problem solving therapy or psychoeducation.

Full description

The purpose of this study is to determine the usefulness of a stress reduction treatment compared to psychoeducation in helping minority patients with major depression get better.

The study will last 10 weeks. During the main portion of the study, subjects will receive either individual weekly sessions of stress-reduction therapy or psychoeducation for six weeks. The stress reduction therapy will consist of mindfulness-based stress reduction and problem solving therapy, which focuses on linking psychological problems with psychosocial issues and helping you use your skills and resources to improve your functioning. The psychoeducation will consist of six sessions of education on depression and the treatment and management of symptoms. Each session will last 50 minutes, and four of the visits will also include filling out questionnaires which will take approximately 15-30 minutes to complete. One month after the last session, subjects will come in for a follow-up visit with a study clinician to see how they are doing and to fill out questionnaires.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Meet criteria for current major depressive disorder
• Men or women aged 18-75 who self-identify as a member of a racial or ethnic minority group
• Has a PCP, therapist, psychiatrist, etc aware of their depression. Or, subject agrees to seek outside mental health treatment/management

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Mindfulness based stress reduction and problem solving therapy

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Psychoeducation

Psychoeducation

Other group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Psychoeducation