NCT05654948

Characterisation of Fundamental Decision Making in People Suffering From a Characterised Depressive Episode

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Tours · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators will include patients suffering from Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), in episode. The patients will undertake neuropsychological tasks evaluating executive function and clinical assessment related to depressive symptoms, anxiety, transdiagnostic symptoms and psychological skills.

Detailed description

The investigators will include patients suffering from MDD, in episode. The patients will be evaluated with the MINI-7 interview. Then, the participants will undertake different neuropsychological tasks evaluating executive function: the stroop task, the D2 tasks, the finger tapping test and the mindpulse. The participants will also undertake clinical evaluation the MADRS, the Transdiagnostic Skills Scale, the Symptomatic Transdiagnostic Test, the STAI and the Severity Insomnia Indexes. The investigators will perform correlational analysis between the neuropsychological tasks and the clinical evaluations. The investigators will also compare the predictive power of the different neuropsychological tasks on depressive symptoms.

Conditions

• Depressive Episode

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	computerised cognitive performance test : MindPulse	In practice, this tool measures the speed at which an individual reacts to the appearance of a simple image on a screen with instructions to react only to certain images. It thus makes it possible to measure the speed of information processing, attention, executive functions and reaction to difficulty

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-02-09
• Primary completion: 2024-04-25
• Completion: 2024-04-25
• First posted: 2022-12-16
• Last updated: 2024-12-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France