NCT01706731

Effectiveness of Buddhist Monks in Providing Cognitive Behavior Therapy

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Cognitive Behavior Therapy Provided by Buddhist Monks vs. Treatment as Usual in the Treatment of Late Life-depression

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 62 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Chiang Mai University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years – 95 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This research is to study the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy-CBT and Psychotherapy by trained buddhist monks. There are generally accepted that both cognitive and Buddhist concepts are related. This randomized controlled trial is to study the elderly participants who suffer major depressive disorder according to DSM-IV. The subjects will be divided into two groups. The experimental group will receive 12 sessions of CBT 2 times per week for 6 weeks in addition to usual treatment. The control group will receive treatment as usual and general conversation (non-CBT) with monks. Pretreatment factors (such as attachment style, interpersonal factors) of both therapist monks and patient participants will be studied.

Conditions

• Major Depressive Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Treatment as usual	Treatment as usual (TAU)is defined as the routine care provided to each individual patient at the geriatric psychiatry clinic of Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital.
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive-behavioral therapy	Cognitive behavioral therapy(CBT)includes psychoeducational components combined with cognitive interventions targeted at challenging negative automatic thoughts.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-10-01
• Primary completion: 2013-10-01
• Completion: 2013-10-01
• First posted: 2012-10-15
• Last updated: 2012-10-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Thailand