Treatment of Depression With Mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment (MAC_Depr)

Neuropsychiatrischen Zentrums Hamburg-Altona

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Psychotherapy; Depression

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment-Therapy; Behavioral: Jacobson

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03692130

SCHULZE02

Details and patient eligibility

About

Randomized trial to proof the effects and efficacy of a new mindfulness and acceptance based group-treatment for depressive patients

Full description

In this study, a randomized trial is conducted in which the participants are allocated to two different care services (MAC-CBT® vs. progressive muscle relaxation). Participants are patients with depression who have been made aware of the group therapy by their treating physicians or psychotherapists or who have read the advertising in waiting areas or on the investigators homepage. An extensive psychometric survey will be conducted at the start of the study in an interview session with a psychotherapist, who also judges if the participants are able to participate in a therapy group. The MAC-CBT® group receives an eight-session group therapy, in which the aspects of mindfulness, acceptance and commitment are taught in detail. The control group will receive an eight-session treatment with progressive muscle relaxation. Input and output results are determined using validated survey instruments. In addition, the investigators will check the data for moderating variables (e.g. age, gender, previous treatments...).

Enrollment: 120 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Depressive Disorder

Exclusion criteria

• Somatic disorder
• psychotic disorder
• personality disorder

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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120 participants in 2 patient groups

New Treatment

Active Comparator group

Description:

The patients will be treated with psychological group treatment for 8 Sessions with focus on mindfulness, acceptance and commitment in a special adapted treatment process.This will be called "Mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment-Therapy for depressive Patients".

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment-Therapy

Known Treatment

Sham Comparator group

Description:

The participants will be treated with a relaxation-treatment, long time established as "jacobson muscle relaxing technique".

Treatment:

Behavioral: Jacobson