NCT00530296

CBT to Treat Depression in Renal Patients

Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease in Hemodialysis and With Depression

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Federal University of São Paulo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is effective in the treatment of depression in patients with end-stage renal disease in hemodialysis therapy

Detailed description

Depression is a persistent problem among patients with end-stage renal disease and it does not tend to improve over time. The implementation of effective interventions to treat and prevent recurrence of depressive episodes is needed. The objectives of this study are: 1)the detection of Major Depression in hemodialysis patients; 2)to allocate patients with depression in two groups: structured program of treatment with CBT (group therapy)and control group (conventional psychotherapy at the dialysis unit); and 3)to verify whether after 3 months of CBT there was a remission of depressive symptoms and a improvement of the quality of life in the CBT group.

Conditions

• Depression
• End Stage Renal Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive Behavioral Therapy	Group therapy, 12 sessions (90 minutes each, one session per week) manual "Coping with depression course"

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-06-01
• Completion: 2008-06-01
• First posted: 2007-09-17
• Last updated: 2007-09-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil