Active clinical trials for "Depressive Disorder"

Qatar Mothers and Babies is a 4-year collaboration between Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Sidra Medicine in Doha, Qatar that will generate and evaluate a cultural and contextual adaptation of the Mothers and Babies intervention for pregnant Arabic-speaking women in Qatar. The study will examine the feasibility and acceptability of the adapted intervention as well as its effectiveness in improving mental health outcomes among pregnant women receiving prenatal care at Sidra Medicine in Doha. Additionally, given the high prevalence of diabetes among this study population, the investigators are also interested in seeing if the Mothers and Babies interventions helps improve the management of this disease. Funded by the Qatar National Research Fund's National Priorities Research Program (NPRP), this project has the potential to guide future cultural adaptations of Mothers and Babies as well as other evidence-based interventions, and the delivery of Mothers and Babies to Arab and Arab-American women.

Depressed patients talk differently when they are depressed compared to when they are well. But it is hard to actually measure what the differences are. The study team will record voice samples from patients with mood disturbances, like depression, over the course of their receiving an electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) series. The study team will try and measure or quantify exactly what has changed in their speech and voice. The study team will choose ECT as it is one of the most effective and rapid treatment for depression. The study team will use a service provided by a company, NeuroLex, who has complex computer programs (artificial intelligence, AI) to analyze the voice samples.

Participants will be asked to fill out an online questionnaire about their demographics information and all 42 items from the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-42). A series of machine learning techniques will be applied to the dataset to develop a shortened assessment using the most important demographics and DASS-42 items from the original questionnaire, to predict depression levels indicated by DASS-42.

TRAIT-RS is an observational study to evaluate ongoing treatment response stability to standard of care antidepressant treatments (ADTs) among individuals who met criteria for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and completed the Tracking Response to Antidepressants in Advance of Investigational Trials (TRAIT) study (NCT04748276).

This study seeks to investigate the levels of parental stress across different demographic subgroups in the general parental population during the strict social distancing government-initiated non-pharmacological interventions (NPI's) related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The study also seeks to examine the predictors of parental stress rates related to these non-pharmacological interventions (NPI's). In addition, the research will investigate the association between parental stress associated and psychopathology symptoms (i.e., depression and generalized anxiety). The aim of the project is to: Inform the policymakers, the general public, scientists, and health practitioners about the psychological associations of the COVID-19-related government-initiated measures on parental stress, with special focus on the school and kindergarten lockdowns. Provide a foundation for policymakers and health-care professionals to employ interventions that protect families against possibly increased psychological stressors. Help policymakers and healthcare professionals to better understand the association of demographic variables and other predictors on parental stress and parent-child dysfunction, which information necessary for evaluating the psychological impact of NPIs on parental stress and thus the framework under which decisions about school/kindergarten lockdowns are made.

Predicting the prognosis and treatment responses in individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) is currently based on trial and error, because some treatments work for some individuals, but not others. Novel predictors of prognosis and treatment response in MDD can add value to the development of targeted treatments and the stratified approaches to improve long-term outcomes of individuals with MDD. This study uses a novel virtual-reality-based measure of blame-related action tendencies and combines this with established predictors of treatment response and prognosis in individuals with MDD.

Approximately 20 sites in Korea including the Catholic University of Korea, Yeouido St. Mary's Hospital. Patients with Depressive disorders taking a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant or Serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI), who additionally administered Buspar® Tab (Buspirone) to control symptom of anxiety. Primary objective: To evaluate the efficacy of treating the symptoms of anxiety at 12 weeks from the baseline after the administration of Buspar® Tab (Buspirone) to patients with depression by using the Hamilton Anxiety (HAM-A). Approximately 400 participants (including 10% dropouts) Rating Scale

Despite experiencing higher rates of depressive symptoms and similar rates of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), Latina (female) adolescents in the U.S. are significantly less likely than their non-Latina White peers to receive treatment for MDD. The purpose of this study is to identify facilitators of and barriers to depression treatment engagement among Latina adolescents across patient-, family-, and healthcare provider-levels from the perspectives of these individuals. Latina adolescent-parent dyads and healthcare providers will be recruited from community and healthcare settings. Separate individual semi-structured interviews will be conducted with Latina adolescents (n=12) and their parents (n=12). Two focus groups will be conducted with primary care providers (n=6) and mental health providers (n=6) who frequently care for Latina youth. Qualitative content analysis will be used to analyze the transcripts to determine common themes in facilitators and barriers across stakeholder groups.

The purpose of this research is to explore objective biomarkers in voice, physiological, motor, and brain imaging signals that may one day be used to complement clinical evaluation and treatment of depression.

The aim of this study is to determine whether blood levels of lithium or sertraline are affected by different phases of the menstrual cycle and whether there is an effect on psychiatric symptoms. Subjects are seen for two visits: one visit during the luteal phase and one visit during the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle. On each visit, they will fill out a depression, anxiety and mania rating scale. Also at each visit a 20mL blood sample will be drawn to measure progesterone level and either a lithium or sertraline level, depending on which medication the patient takes. The primary hypothesis in this study is that blood levels of lithium and sertraline will be significantly lower in women during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle than during the follicular phase. Examination will also be made of whether symptoms will increase in severity during the luteal phase as compared to the follicular phase. The investigators expect a negative linear association between symptom severity and blood level, i.e. expect symptom severity to worsen as blood levels of lithium or sertraline decrease.