NCT01449890

Randomized Trial of Depression Follow-up Care by Email

Randomized Trial of E-mail Follow-up Care After Cognitive Behavioural Treatment for Depression

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 92 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The primary objective of this study is to test in a randomized effectiveness trial if e-mail delivered cognitive behavioural treatment is an effective follow-up care approach in the treatment of depression under clinically representative conditions.

Detailed description

Depression belongs to the most prevalent mental disorders and often goes along with a high burden of disease. Although the efficacy and the effectiveness of psychological treatments for depressive disorders have been demonstrated, there remains the problem of maintaining the benefits achieved during the initial treatment phase. Therefore options of follow-up care have to be considered. Since access to psychotherapeutic treatments is limited and costly, internet-based interventions can offer a feasible opportunity for follow-up care in order to enhance the long-term effectiveness of psychotherapy.

Conditions

• Depressive Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	E-mail follow up care	After having terminated inpatient CBT patients receive follow up care by email for 12 weeks (on average one contact per week). The follow up care aims at supporting the patients in continuing exercises in order to cope with depression.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-09-01
• Primary completion: 2013-09-01
• Completion: 2013-11-01
• First posted: 2011-10-10
• Last updated: 2015-06-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany