F32 F33 F40 F41 F42 F43
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Patients will be subdivided into two groups. Group 1 considers of patients, which are in outpatients psychotherapy because of a unipolar affective disorder. The remission or persistence of t
Sponsors
Universität des SaarlandesKlinische Psychologie und Psychotehrapie
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients: Outpatients of psychotherapeutic treatment. Patients had to fulfill the diagnosis of a unipolar affective disorder (F32, F33), an anxiety disorder (F40, F41), an obsessive-compulsive disorder (F42) or trauma and stress-related disorder (F43) at the start of the therapy (retrospectively assessed). Patients and participating relatives: Minimum age 18 years.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients: Comorbidity between a unipolar affective disorder and an anxiety disorder. Comorbidity between a unipolar affective disorder and an obsessive-compulsive disorder. Comorbidity between a unipolar affective disorder and a trauma and stress-related disorder. Diagnosis of a psychotic disorder or a personality disorder. Participating relatives: None.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Examination of the concordance of the foreign-description and the self-description of aggressive behavioral tendencies (test inventory of autoaggressive and extraneous aggressive behavior, TAV) of outpatients and their relatives. Thereby both the patients and their relatives describe the aggressive behavioral tendencies reciprocally. Ratings of Quality and intensity of the relationship between the patients and their relatives will be taken into account for this analyses. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Testing the hypothesis of increased aggressive behavioral tendencies for patients with unipolar affective disorders compared to patients with anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive-disorders, trauma and stress-related disorders. The aggressive behavioral tendencies will be measured with the TAV. Testing the hypothesis of an association between the aggressive behavioral tendencies and the depressive symptoms for both the patient subgroups and the whole sample (including the relatives of the patientes). Depressive symptoms will be measured with the beck depression inventory revision (BDI-II). Testing the hypothesis of increased aggressive behavioral tendencies for patients with unipolar affective disorders compared to their relatives. For all patient, the fulfillment of the diagnostic criteria of mental disorders will be assessed with a structured clinical interview (MINI-DIPS) for both retrospectives for the symptomology at the start of the therapy and for the current time-point. The patient groups will be divided by their symptomology at the start of the therapy in group 1 (unipolar affective disorders) and group 2 (anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, trauma and stress-related disorders). The persistence (or Remission) of the symptomology will be taken into account for the analyses. Anxiety symptoms and psychosomatic symptoms are assessed with die Mini-Symptom-checklist. Associations between the aggressive behavioral tendencies and the anxiety symptoms and the psychosomatic symptoms will be examined. | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactChristian Schanz
Universität des SaarlandesKlinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie
Outcome results
None listed