Randomized Trial of Depression Follow-up Care by Email
Depressive Disorders
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Depressive Disorders focused on measuring follow up care, e-mail, effectiveness, depressive disorders
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Depressive disorder: F32.0-F32.2; F33.0-F33.2; F34.1 according to ICD-10
- Precursory CBT
- Internet access
Exclusion Criteria:
- No knowledge of the German language
- Risk of suicide
- Acute psychosis or psychotic symptoms
- Established concurrent in vivo CBT after discharge from inpatient CBT
Sites / Locations
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Centre of Psychosocial Medicine, Department of Medical Psychology
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
E-mail follow up care
Treatment as usual
After having terminated inpatient CBT patients receive follow up care by email for 12 weeks (on average one contact per week). The follow up care aims at supporting the patients in continuing exercises they have learned during the initial treatment phase in order to cope with depression, e.g. integrating positive activities in their all day life or monitoring the interdependence of cognition, emotion and behaviour.
After having terminated inpatient CBT patients receive treatment as usual within routine care.