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NCT ID: NCT05691439 Recruiting - Clinical trials for Depression in Adolescence

Mechanisms of Depression and Anhedonia in Adolescents: Linking Sleep to Reward- and Stress-Related Brain Function

MoDA
Start date: March 27, 2023
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

This research will use biobehavioral approaches to generate understanding about the linkages between sleep duration and timing, stressful life events, and depressive symptoms in adolescents, with a long-term aim of developing effective preventative interventions.

NCT ID: NCT05617495 Recruiting - Rumination Clinical Trials

Mindfulness-Based fMRI Neurofeedback for Depression

mbNF
Start date: April 10, 2024
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

In the United States, adolescents experience alarmingly high rates of major depression, and gold-standard treatments are only effective for approximately half of patients. Rumination may be a promising treatment target, as it is well-characterized at the neural level and contributes to depression onset, maintenance, and recurrence as well as predicts treatment non-response. Accordingly, the proposed research will investigate whether an innovative mindfulness-based real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) neurofeedback intervention successfully elicits change in the brain circuit underlying rumination to improve clinical outcomes among depressed adolescents.

NCT ID: NCT05437588 Recruiting - Depression Clinical Trials

Neural-Derived Plasma Exosomal MicroRNAs As Promising Novel Biomarkers for Suicidality and Treatment Outcome in Adolescents

Start date: October 1, 2022
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

This study is dedicated to help identify biomarkers for depression and suicide. The purpose of the study is to better understand these links to improve medical and psychiatric care in the future. This research is also to test the effects of standard treatment of depression on improvement in depressive and suicidal behavior and on biomarkers (e.g. miRNA) for these disorders.

NCT ID: NCT05376358 Active, not recruiting - Clinical trials for Depression in Adolescence

Evaluation of MoodRing on Improving the Quality of Depression Management in Adolescents

TECH-E
Start date: May 12, 2022
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

The MoodRing intervention is a mobile application for adolescents, parents, and an accompanying web-based clinician portal which enables adolescents to monitor their mood through the use of passively collected smartphone data. This randomized controlled trial will evaluate whether MoodRing as compared to usual care improves the quality of depression management.

NCT ID: NCT05335564 Completed - Depressive Disorder Clinical Trials

Evaluation of a Website to Improve Depression Literacy in Parents of Adolescents With Depression

Start date: January 20, 2021
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and acceptability of the website "ich bin alles" (https://www.ich-bin-alles.de/) to improve depression literacy (knowledge about depression, which aid the recognition, treatment or prevention of depression) in parents of adolescents with acute or remitted depressive disorder. The investigators will examine whether the website improves depression literacy in parents of adolescents aged 12 to 18 years with a history of depression. The investigators will also assess the acceptability of the website among the participants.

NCT ID: NCT05329441 Recruiting - Clinical trials for Depression in Adolescence

Inflammatory and Glutamatergic Mechanisms of Sustained Threat in Adolescents With Depression

TIGER
Start date: July 6, 2023
Phase:
Study type: Observational

Despite the prevalence and significant public health concern over depression among adolescents, up to 40% of depressed adolescents do not respond to first-line antidepressants (herein termed treatment non-response, TNR). The goal of this project is to recruit and assess 160 treatment-seeking depressed adolescents and test whether acute stress impacts peripheral levels of inflammation and downstream levels of glutamate in corticolimbic regions previously associated with depression, whether these stress-related biomarkers predict TNR to a 12-week trial of either fluoxetine or escitalopram, and whether these stress-related biomarkers predict 18-month clinical course.

NCT ID: NCT05326178 Completed - Depressive Disorder Clinical Trials

Evaluation of a Website to Improve Depression Literacy in Parents of Healthy Adolescents

Start date: January 12, 2021
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and acceptability of the website "ich bin alles" (https://www.ich-bin-alles.de/) to improve depression literacy (knowledge about depression, which aid the recognition, treatment or prevention of depression) in parents of healthy adolescents without a mental health condition. The investigators will examine whether the website improves depression literacy in parents of adolescents aged 12 to 18 years without a mental health condition. The investigators will also assess the acceptability of the website among the participants.

NCT ID: NCT05300217 Completed - Depressive Disorder Clinical Trials

Evaluation of a Website to Improve Depression Literacy in Adoldescents

Start date: January 4, 2021
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and acceptability of the website "ich bin alles" (https://www.ich-bin-alles.de/) to improve depression literacy (knowledge about depression, which aid the recognition, treatment or prevention of depression) in healthy adolescents. The investigators will examine whether the website improves depression literacy in healthy adolescents aged 12 to 18 years. The investigators will also assess the acceptability of the website among adolescents.

NCT ID: NCT05300204 Completed - Depressive Disorder Clinical Trials

Evaluation of a Website to Improve Depression Literacy in Adolescents With Depression

Start date: January 4, 2021
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and acceptability of the website "ich bin alles" (https://www.ich-bin-alles.de/) to improve depression literacy (knowledge about depression, which aid the recognition, treatment or prevention of depression) in adolescents with acute or remitted depressive disorder. The investigators will examine whether the website improves depression literacy in adolescents aged 12 to 18 years with a history of depression. The investigators will also assess the acceptability of the website among the adolescents.

NCT ID: NCT04747340 Recruiting - Depressive Disorder Clinical Trials

Clinical Effectiveness of TARA Compared to Standard Treatment for Adolescents and Young Adults With Depression

TARA
Start date: March 12, 2021
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

Depressive Disorders constitute an increasing global health concern and available treatments for young people have not been sufficiently effective in haltering this trend. The novel group treatment program "Training for Awareness, Resilience, and Action" (TARA) was developed to target specific mechanisms based on neuroscientific findings in adolescent depression. TARA is framed within the National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria and has documented feasibility and preliminary efficacy in adolescents with depression. In this study, young people (age: 15-22) with depression will be recruited from specialized Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Youth Clinics and randomized to receive either TARA or Standard Treatment (ST) until n=67 is reached in each arm. Outcome measures will be obtained before randomization (T0), 6 weeks after treatment start (T0.5), at 3- and 6 months follow-up (T1, T2). The primary outcome measure is Reynold's Adolescent Depression Scale (RADS-2) score at T1. Secondary outcome measures are RADS-2-score at T2, clinician depression rating with Children's Depression Rating Scale, Revised at T1,and self-rated anxiety with Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children, 2nd ed. at T1 and T2. Other outcomes include heart rate variability and systemic bioindicators for depression from blood and hair. Data collected from subgroups within the study will include: brain magnetic resonance imaging and accelerometry. Qualitative interviews will be performed to reach a more comprehensive understanding of the subjective experience of being depressed and to what extent treatment adequately addresses this experience. A 2-year follow-up (T3) will be performed and presented separately. The study will be the first Randomized Controlled Trial to examine the clinical effectiveness of TARA compared to ST for young people with depression. The investigators hypothesize that (1) TARA will result in greater reduction of depression symptoms compared to ST and that group differences will be maintained or increased at T2, (2) the treatment effect of TARA will be mediated by improved emotion regulation, sleep, and psychological flexibility, (3) bioindicators for depression will improve more in the TARA-arm compared to the ST-arm, (4) it will be possible/meaningful to explore the contextual factors perceived to drive the depression onset and maintenance, and the extent to which the different treatments address these factors.