NCT00745940

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Intervention to Treat Depression in Individuals With a Traumatic Brain Injury

A Multi-site, Randomized, Controlled Trial of a Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy Intervention for Treating Depression in a Traumatic Brain Injury Population.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 105 (actual)
• Sponsor: Lakehead University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is effective in reducing depression symptoms in individuals who have experienced a traumatic brain injury. The investigators hypothesize that participants who are given the ten-week intervention will have fewer depression symptoms than the participants in the control group, and this improvement will be maintained at the three-month follow-up assessment.

Detailed description

Major depression is a significant chronic problem for people with traumatic brain injury (TBI), and its treatment is difficult. A promising approach to treat depression is mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), a relatively new therapeutic approach rooted in mindfulness-based stress-reduction (MBSR) and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). This multi-site, randomized, controlled trial of a MBCT intervention will examine the value of this intervention in improving quality of life and decreasing depression in people with TBI. MBCT may represent a time-limited, cost-effective group intervention through which clinicians would have an opportunity to address some of the most debilitating aspects of TBI.

Conditions

• Depression
• Traumatic Brain Injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	MBCT for TBI	Subjects will participate in a 10-week Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Program led by two trained facilitators. Weekly one-and-a-half hour group sessions will guide subjects through exercises such as meditation, awareness, and breathing techniques aimed at developing skills to help with tension, stress, anxiety and depression. Subjects will be encouraged to practice skills at home and in daily life.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-11-01
• Primary completion: 2012-05-01
• Completion: 2012-05-01
• First posted: 2008-09-03
• Last updated: 2014-03-28
• Results posted: 2014-02-17

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: Canada