Associations of affective mentalizing ability and depressive symptoms in an outpatient sample of patients

Associations of affective mentalizing ability and depressive symptoms in an outpatient sample of patients - Ment_Depr

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

DRKS

Registry ID

DRKS00031040

Enrollment

300

Registered

2023-03-20

Start date

2022-12-25

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-04-07

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Conditions

Depressive symptoms and affective mentalization

Interventions

Group 1: Outpatient psychotherapy patients in the procedure of psychodynamic psychotherapy (TP) at the Institute of Psychotherapy Prior to admission to outpatient psychodynamic psychotherapy (TP) at

Biel et al., 2023 in print: affective mentalization) and the D-MentS (The Mentalization Scale

Dimitrijevic et al., 2018: cognitive mentalization), the other instruments of the questionnaire battery "Fragebogen Vorgespräch / Erstgespräch" are not relevant for the present study.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Presence of consent to data evaluation on the document "Einverständnis zur Teilnahme an der Psychotherapiebegleitforschung am Institut für Psychotherapie (IfP)"

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: none

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Low affective mentalizing ability (according to a German-language version of the Emotion Beliefs Questionnaire; Biel et al., 2023 in press) is associated with higher depressive symptoms (according to a German-language version of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9; Gräfe et al., 2009) The primary aim of the study is to find out whether, in cross-section, a low affective mentalizing ability (according to a German-language version of the Emotion Beliefs Questionnaire, EBQ; Biel et al., 2023 in press) is associated with more depressive symptoms (according to a German-language version of the Patient Health Questionnaire, PHQ-9; Gräfe et al., 2009). The two instruments are filled out once in writing by the outpatients in the procedure of psychodynamic psychotherapy (TP) at the Institute for Psychotherapy as part of the standardized "Fragebogen Vorgespräch / Erstgespräch".	—

Measure

Time frame

Low affective mentalizing ability (according to a German-language version of the Emotion Beliefs Questionnaire; Biel et al., 2023 in press) is associated with higher depressive symptoms (according to a German-language version of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9; Gräfe et al., 2009) The primary aim of the study is to find out whether, in cross-section, a low affective mentalizing ability (according to a German-language version of the Emotion Beliefs Questionnaire, EBQ; Biel et al., 2023 in press) is associated with more depressive symptoms (according to a German-language version of the Patient Health Questionnaire, PHQ-9; Gräfe et al., 2009). The two instruments are filled out once in writing by the outpatients in the procedure of psychodynamic psychotherapy (TP) at the Institute for Psychotherapy as part of the standardized "Fragebogen Vorgespräch / Erstgespräch".

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Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Low cognitive mentalizing ability (according to Mentalization Scale; Dimitrijevic et al., 2018) is associated with higher depressive symptoms (according to a German-language version of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9; Gräfe et al., 2009) The secondary aim of the study is to find out whether in cross-section a low cognitive mentalization ability (according to The Mentalization Scale, D-MentS; Dimitrijevic et al., 2018) is associated with more depressive symptoms (according to a German-language version of the Patient Health Questionnaire, PHQ-9; Gräfe et al., 2009). The two measurements are completed once in writing by the outpatients in the procedure of psychodynamic psychotherapy (TP) at the Institute for Psychotherapy as part of the standardized "Fragebogen Vorgespräch / Erstgespräch".	—

Measure

Time frame

Low cognitive mentalizing ability (according to Mentalization Scale; Dimitrijevic et al., 2018) is associated with higher depressive symptoms (according to a German-language version of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9; Gräfe et al., 2009) The secondary aim of the study is to find out whether in cross-section a low cognitive mentalization ability (according to The Mentalization Scale, D-MentS; Dimitrijevic et al., 2018) is associated with more depressive symptoms (according to a German-language version of the Patient Health Questionnaire, PHQ-9; Gräfe et al., 2009). The two measurements are completed once in writing by the outpatients in the procedure of psychodynamic psychotherapy (TP) at the Institute for Psychotherapy as part of the standardized "Fragebogen Vorgespräch / Erstgespräch".

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Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactKlaus Michael Reininger

Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Institut für Psychotherapie (IfP)

m.reininger@uke.uni-hamburg.de040 7410 52975

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026