Online Self-help for Depressed Patients Awaiting Psychotherapy

University of Luebeck230 enrolled

Overview

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.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

230

Conditions

Major Depressive Disorder

Interventions

Online self-helpOTHER

Provision of online self-help

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 65 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Major Depressive Disorder * stable medication * 18yrs. or older Exclusion Criteria: * current psychotherapy * acute suicidality * unavailability of internet connection

Locations (1)

MVZ Falkenried

Hamburg, Germany

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Depressive Symptomatology

Time frame: up to 16 weeks

Secondary Outcomes

Depressive Symptomatology

Time frame: 6 weeks, up to 10 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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