NCT02059200

Mindfulness Based Compassionate Living in Recurrent Depression

The Effectiveness of Mindfulness Based Compassionate Living in Recurrent Depression

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 122 (actual)
• Sponsor: Radboud University Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Since a few years, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) has been used as treatment for patients suffering from recurrent depression. Though a number of studies show that MBCT is effective in this population and MBCT reduces the chances of relapse/recurrence in recurrent depressive patients, the chance of a new depression developing after end of treatment is still considerable. Ergo, there is room for improvement. Especially the development of a non-judging or compassionate attitude towards all experience seems to mediate the treatment effect. It is therefore our expectation that a follow-up intervention that focuses specifically on self-compassion could prove very useful in elaborating on the effects of MBCT. The research question of this research is therefore: what is the effect of compassion training in people suffering from recurrent depression who have already received MBCT training?

Conditions

• Recurrent Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness Based Compassionate Living	The MBCL program consists of eight biweekly group sessions of 2.5 hours, in which the participants get formal meditation exercises, some theoretical information and participate in inquiry on the meditation exercises and homework assignments. Homework assignments are given after every session, consisting of formal and informal meditation exercises primarily and some diary instructions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-07-01
• Primary completion: 2015-05-01
• Completion: 2015-11-01
• First posted: 2014-02-11
• Last updated: 2023-04-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands