Online Self-help for Depressed Patients Awaiting Psychotherapy

Status

Terminated

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01226238

Enrollment

230

Registered

2010-10-22

Start date

2010-10-31

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2014-06-26

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Conditions

Major Depressive Disorder

Brief summary

Patients with major depression who are on a waiting list for psychotherapy usually suffer from considerable symptoms. Online self-help is one potential way to alleviate this suffering. The investigators want to study if patients awaiting psychotherapy benefit from online-self help. The investigators therefore randomly assign patients to either online self-help or no intervention and assess their depressive symptoms on a regular basis. The investigators hypothesize that online self-help will be superior to no intervention in alleviating depressive symptoms in depressed patients awaiting psychotherapy.

Interventions

OTHEROnline self-help

Provision of online self-help

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 65 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Major Depressive Disorder * stable medication * 18yrs. or older

Exclusion criteria

* current psychotherapy * acute suicidality * unavailability of internet connection

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Depressive Symptomatology	up to 16 weeks

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Depressive Symptomatology	6 weeks, up to 10 months

Countries

Germany

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Mar 4, 2026