Anxiety, Depression, Major Depression
Conditions
Keywords
depression, anxiety, psychoeducation, self-help, psychosocial
Brief summary
This is a quasi-experimental evaluation of psychoeducational course focusing on mindfulness and lifestyle changes for depression and anxiety; clients in active treatment group are compared to those in a treatment-as-usual wait-list control group. The primary hypothesis is that the psychoeducational course will result in lower levels of depression and anxiety as compared to the wait-listed treatment-as-usual comparison group.
Detailed description
This study evaluates a psychoeducational intervention: Teaching mindfulness and lifestyle interventions to adult clients who self-report problems with depression and/or anxiety. The course is eight weeks long. Clients are assigned to either (1) receive the course (COU condition) from October- December 2010 or (2) placed on a waiting list and receive treatment-as-usual (TAU condition). Those in the TAU group will be offered the course in January 2011. Random assignment to COU or TAU conditions will be attempted although this may be relaxed due to institutional constraints. Participants are assessed on the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) at the beginning of the course, on the last day of the course, at 1-month post-course, at 4-months post-course, and at 12-months post-course. Participants in the COU condition will be compared to those in TAU condition at the beginning of the course, on the last day of the course, and at 1-month post-course. Further evaluations (4 and 12 months post-course) will be pre-post evaluations without a comparison group.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALPsychoeducational course
Psychoeducational course on mindfulness and lifestyle interventions for depression and anxiety
Sponsors
Arizona State University
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 90 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Participants self-report as having depression or anxiety * Adults (age 18 or above) * Clients willing to participate in an 8-week psychoeducational course
Exclusion criteria
* A diagnosis of a psychotic disorder * Unwilling to participate in 8-week psychoeducational course
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) | BDI administered at 12 weeks | Depression will be assessed by comparing BDI scores on day one with BDI scores at twelve weeks (four weeks after conclusion of the psychoeducational course). The primary study hypothesis is that the psychoeducational course group will have a greater reduction in BDI scores when compared to the treatment-as-usual wait-listed comparison group. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) | BAI administered at 8 weeks | — |
| Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) | BDI administered at 8 weeks | — |
| Client Medication Use | Measured on Day 1 of Study | Clients fill out a survey which includes a question asking if they are currently taking psychiatric medication. |
| Client Currently Seeing Therapist | Measured on Day 1 of study | Clients are given a survey which includes a question asking if they are currently seeing a clinician for psychotherapy. |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed