NCT01636752

Effectiveness of Internet-based Depression Treatment

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,013 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Luebeck · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Care for people suffering from depressive symptoms should be given in a step-wise approach. One first step can be the provision of self-help material. Online self-help is an innovative way of providing self-help. The investigators want to study the effect of an interactive online self-help-program (Deprexis) in the treatment of mild to moderate depressive symptoms. Participants will be randomised to either twelve weeks of online-self help or a waiting-list control. Symptoms of depression and other aspects will be assessed over a one year period. Thereafter the controls will also receive online-self help. The investigators hypothesise that online self-help is superior to the control condition in alleviating depressive symptoms and preventing full blown depression.

Detailed description

This study is supported by the German Ministry of Health (BMG) and is a collaborative project of Universität Bern (PD Dr. Thomas Berger), Charité Berlin (PD Dr. Matthias Rose), Universität Bielefeld (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Greiner), Universität Hamburg (Prof. Dr. Steffen Moritz, Prof. Dr. Bernd Löwe), GAIA AG Hamburg (Dr. Björn Meyer), Universität Tübingen (Prof. Dr. Martin Hautzinger) and Universität Trier (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lutz).

Conditions

• Mild to Moderate Depressive Symptoms

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Deprexis	Online self-help with and without e-mail-support

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-07-01
• Primary completion: 2015-02-01
• Completion: 2017-02-01
• First posted: 2012-07-10
• Last updated: 2018-10-12

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: Germany