Active clinical trials for "Depressive Disorder"

Background: Due to the lingering effects of general anesthesia and the administration of medications for pain after surgery, children in the recovery room are at risk for breathing problems. While there are less data specific to children, in general 25% of patients in the recovery room experience complications from anesthesia. The most common complications involve the patient's airway and their ability to breath adequately. Currently, checks of oxygenation with a pulse oximetry monitor and of respiration through nursing assessments are used to detect breathing problems. However, these are believed not to be adequate for reliably recognizing significant respiratory depression until other dangerous events develop such as the cessation of breathing, severe drops in oxygen levels, or cardiac arrest. Capnography is a monitoring device that measures the amount of carbon dioxide being exhaled and assesses the adequacy of respiration. A small plastic cannula sits at the base of the nose and on the lip to continuously monitor the patient's breathing. Most children tolerate this device well and staff consider it easy to use. While capnography is routinely used in the operating room to monitor breathing, it is not used during post-operative care when patients are still at risk of breathing problems. Objectives: To determine if capnography can detect problems with breathing faster and more often than traditional monitors. To determine if the addition of capnography to routine monitoring will decrease the numbers of additional adverse events that occur in children undergoing post-operative care by allowing nurses to intervene in care faster and more frequently. Methods: In the first phase of this study, the investigators will apply the capnography monitor to children in the recover room and determine how often they experience breathing difficulties measured by this device. In the second phase, the investigators will educate staff on the use of capnography and what values are considered abnormal. Children will again have the capnography cannula placed on them as they enter the recovery room. They will then be divided into two groups - in one group the nurses in the recovery room will have access to the capnography monitor for their patients, whereas in the other group the nurses will not be able to see the readout from the monitor. The investigators will determine if children have fewer breathing problems and less additional adverse events when nurses use capnography in addition to the routine monitors already in place in the recovery room as compared to when nurses use standard monitoring alone. Potential Impact: If capnography can detect breathing problems prior to being identified by current monitoring devices, staff may be able to intervene more quickly and before more serious events occur in the children receiving post-operative care. This can reduce adverse events, improve patient safety, and avert harm in children. The adoption of this device for routine monitoring of post-operative care has the potential to save lives.

The study is to explore the effectiveness of omega-3 fatty acids and mindfulness-based stress management program to maintain healthy mental state in hospital nurses. The participants will be junior nurses who work in inpatient wards and are not clinically depressed. The participants will be randomly allocated to four intervention arms: 1) Mindfulness-based stress management program plus omega-3 fatty acids pills ; 2) Mindfulness-based stress management program plus placebo pills; 3) Psychoeducation leaflet plus omega-3 fatty acids pills; and 4) Psychoeducation leaflet plus placebo pills. Thirty participants will be allocated to each arm. These interventions will terminate until three months from registration for each participant. Information about depression and anxiety symptoms (primary outcome), insomnia, burnout, presenteeism, quality of life, sick leave, consultation about mental state of herself, and oxidative stress will be collected at 3 months, 6 months (primary time point) and 12 months from registration for each participant.

Seniors who receive supportive services face a variety of psychosocial vulnerabilities that put them at risk for depression. One group with very high risk is older adults receiving aging services through Medicaid waiver programs. This 3-year research uses a randomized controlled clinical trial to assess the effectiveness of brief behavioral therapies (problem solving therapy [PST] and Brief Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia [BBTI]) to prevent depression in seniors receiving aging services.

In this study, patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) who have insomnia symptom are treated with Seroquel XR in an open-label manner for a 4-week period with repeated measurements of insomnia symptoms and sleep parameters using polysomnography.

To investigate whether fish oil supplementation, compared to placebo (olive oil), could have better effects on depression course and cognitive function in older people with major depression.

To evaluate the equivalent efficacy of ultrabrief pulsewidth right unilateral electroconvulsive therapy versus bitemporal brief pulse electroconvulsive therapy in the treatment of depression and to evaluate the cognitive effects of ultrabrief right unilateral electroconvulsive therapy versus bitemporal brief pulse electroconvulsive therapy.

rTMS is a promising, though largely untested, option for treating adolescent and young adult depression. This study hypothesizes that rTMS will safely and significantly alleviate depression and decrease suicidal ideation in adolescents and young adults based on previous studies.

This study will determine the effectiveness of antidepressant medication in preventing depression and improving recovery in people who have been supported by mechanical ventilators in an intensive care unit (ICU).

The purpose of this study is to test a candidate drug, Org 24448,in a phase II clinical trial in adult patients with moderately treatment-resistant unipolar major depressive disorder.

The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of peer (mother-to-mother) support on the prevention of postpartum depression among mothers identified as high-risk.