Project Lighten Up

Therapeutic Family Involvement (TFI) in the Management of Persistent Clinical Depression: Psycho-education, Family Support and Multi-Family Group Intervention.

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Phase 3

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12605000580673

Enrollment

Registered

2005-10-04

Start date

2003-05-06

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

Project Lighten Up is a community-based project which enhances family involement in the treatment of depression. It evaluates the efficacy of a multi-family model of intervention using a randomised control design and both quantitative and qualitative data analysis

Interventions

A randomised control study which compares usual treatment for Depression (control condition) with a usual treatment plus multi-family group intervention (treatment condition). The intervention is a 15-session fortnightly family group involving 6 families.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Treatment

Masking

Open (masking not used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

35 Years to 60 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1) A diagnosis of Depression (greater than 17 on Hamilton Depression Inventory) which has been resistant to standard medical treatment delivered for at least one year. 2) The availability of a significant other to take part 3) The absence of moderate to severe psychatric conditions other than depression.

Exclusion criteria

Anxiety

Outcome results