The power of imagination: Effect of future mental time travel on positive affect in patients with a depressive disorder.

The power of imagination: Effect of future mental time travel on positive affect in patients with a depressive disorder. - Effect of future mental time travel on positive affect.

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON46141

Enrollment

100

Registered

2016-03-30

Start date

2016-08-18

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-04-23

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Conditions

Depressive disorder Major depressive disorder

Interventions

In three intervention conditions in which participants will be asked to imagine four different events (positive/negative/neutral events respectively) that could possible happen to them the day after

Eligibility

Age

18 Years to 99 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: - Main diagnosis of major depressive disorder - Daily internet access on a desktop computer in a private environment - Sufficient Dutch reading and writing skills

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: - High suicidal risk - Psychotic symptoms

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
The study is based on self-report questionnaires. The primary parameter is the score on the Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS) before intervention, after and at follow-up.	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Secondary objectives are to assess changes in emotion regulation strategies and depressive symptoms used before and after the intervention. Parameters are score on Response to positive affect scale (RPA), Ruminative response schale (RRS), Emotion regulation profile (ERP), Inventory of depressive symptoms (IDS-SR). Futhermore the Subjective Happiness scale (SHS) is used to replicate the measurement in the original study of Quoidbach and colleagues (2009) and the Questionaire upon mental imagery (QMI) to measure individual differences in imagery ability.	—

Measure

Time frame

Secondary objectives are to assess changes in emotion regulation strategies and depressive symptoms used before and after the intervention. Parameters are score on Response to positive affect scale (RPA), Ruminative response schale (RRS), Emotion regulation profile (ERP), Inventory of depressive symptoms (IDS-SR). Futhermore the Subjective Happiness scale (SHS) is used to replicate the measurement in the original study of Quoidbach and colleagues (2009) and the Questionaire upon mental imagery (QMI) to measure individual differences in imagery ability.

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Countries

Netherlands

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)