NCT00924183

Measuring Response to Depression Treatment

Measuring Response to Depression Treatment: A Study Comparing the Sensitivity of Multiple Outcome Measures to Change

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 70 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Dr. D McIntosh & Dr. K Kjernisted Clinical Research Inc. · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 19 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The primary goal of this study is to compare a new symptoms rating questionnaire, called the Vancouver Semi-Structured Interview for Depression (V-SID), to the traditionally used questionnaires. The investigators predict that the V-SID will be more sensitive to patients' improvement than are traditional questionnaires.

Detailed description

Depression is sometimes associated with difficulties in thinking skills. Recent evidence suggests that in those people who have thinking difficulties, effective treatment and improvement of depression can also result in improved thinking skills. Therefore, a test of thinking skills is included in this study. This study will also evaluate three other potential indicators of treatment response: cortisol, cytokines, and grip strength.

Conditions

• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Treatment-as-usual

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-06-01
• Primary completion: 2011-07-01
• Completion: 2011-07-01
• First posted: 2009-06-18
• Last updated: 2011-03-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada