Mindfulness and Lifestyle Interventions for Depression and Anxiety: A Pilot Study

Depression Clinical Trial

Official title: Evaluation of a Psychoeducational Intervention Teaching Mindfulness and Lifestyle Interventions for Clinical Depression and Anxiety (A Pilot Study)

Status Active, not recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

This is a quasi-experimental evaluation of psychoeducational course focusing on mindfulness and lifestyle changes for depression and anxiety; clients in active treatment group are compared to those in a treatment-as-usual wait-list control group. The primary hypothesis is that the psychoeducational course will result in lower levels of depression and anxiety as compared to the wait-listed treatment-as-usual comparison group.

Clinical Trial Description

This study evaluates a psychoeducational intervention: Teaching mindfulness and lifestyle interventions to adult clients who self-report problems with depression and/or anxiety. The course is eight weeks long. Clients are assigned to either (1) receive the course (COU condition) from October- December 2010 or (2) placed on a waiting list and receive treatment-as-usual (TAU condition). Those in the TAU group will be offered the course in January 2011.

Random assignment to COU or TAU conditions will be attempted although this may be relaxed due to institutional constraints.

Participants are assessed on the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) at the beginning of the course, on the last day of the course, at 1-month post-course, at 4-months post-course, and at 12-months post-course.

Participants in the COU condition will be compared to those in TAU condition at the beginning of the course, on the last day of the course, and at 1-month post-course. Further evaluations (4 and 12 months post-course) will be pre-post evaluations without a comparison group. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Non-Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anxiety
• Anxiety Disorders
• Depression
• Depressive Disorder
• Depressive Disorder, Major
• Major Depression

• NCT number: NCT01230047
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Arizona State University
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 2010
• Completion date: October 2011