Depression Clinical Trial
Official title:
Computer-based Treatment of Dysfunctional Beliefs in Depressive Inpatients
The aim of the present study is to investigate whether confronting depressive patients with their dysfunctional core beliefs via a computer program results in a reduction of the patients' dysfunctional beliefs. Patients will be presented with a virtual agent confronting them with their dysfunctional core beliefs (e.g. "You are worthless"). Participants will be instructed to contradict these virtual agents (e.g. "That's not true, I'm a wonderful person").
The aim of the present study is to investigate whether confronting depressive patients with
their dysfunctional core beliefs via a computer program results in a reduction of the
patients' dysfunctional beliefs. Participants will randomly be assigned to the experimental
or control group. In the course of the study, experimental participants will be presented
with a virtual agent confronting them with their dysfunctional core beliefs (e.g. "You are
worthless"). Experimental participants will be instructed to contradict these virtual agents
(e.g. "That's not true, I'm a wonderful person").
A group of inpatients (male/female) suffering from depression will participate in the study.
The patients will be recruited at the "Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und
Psychotherapie der Universität Regensburg am Bezirksklinikum Regensburg".
The study will be divided into five sessions taking place on consecutive days. Furthermore,
there will be a follow-up.
Session 1:
In the course of this session participants will be informed about the experimental procedure
and sign an informed consent. Exclusion criteria will be assessed via self-report and by
consulting the responsible therapist. Participants will be asked to fill in the German
version of the Beck Depression Inventory-II and German version of the Dysfunctional Attitude
Scale. The experimenter will explain the concept of dysfunctional "core beliefs" to the
participants and give examples. Participants will be asked to write down three individual
core beliefs (e.g. "I'm worthless") and to rate how much they believe in each of these three
core beliefs (on a scale ranging from 0% to 100%). Furthermore, participants will be asked to
write down alternative beliefs for each of the three core beliefs and to rate (on a scale
ranging from 0% to 100%) how much they believe in these alternative beliefs.
Sessions 2 to 4 (intervention):
During these sessions, the experimental participants will be seated in front of a computer.
The experimenter will read aloud the participants' core beliefs with the virtual agent on the
computer screen moving his lips accordingly. Thus, participants will get the impression of
the agent speaking to them. Participants will be instructed to contradict the agent. There
will be 10 trials per core belief (30 trials per session, 90 trials in total). At the end of
each session, participants will be asked to rate how much they believe in each of their core
beliefs as well as in each of their alternative beliefs. Furthermore, they will be asked to
rate (on a scale ranging from 0% to 100%) how hard it was for them to contradict the virtual
agent. Control subjects will not undergo sessions 2 to 4.
Session 5:
Participants will fill in the German version of the Beck Depression Inventory-II and the
German version of Dysfunctional Attitude Scale and give a conviction rating for each of their
three core beliefs and each of their alternative beliefs.
Follow-up (after two weeks):
Participants will fill in the German version of the Beck Depression Inventory-II and the
German version of the Dysfunctional Attitude Scale and give a conviction rating for each of
their three core beliefs and each of their alternative beliefs.
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