View clinical trials related to Depressive Disorder.
Filter by:The goal of this study is to examine how social networks, neighborhood, and depression are related to HIV risk. The intervention is designed to train individuals to cope with feelings of depression or stress as a way to reduce their risk for HIV.
Postpartum depression (PPD) is undertreated and the consequences of this are substantial for women and children. Studies show that infant cry/fuss and sleep behavior are associated with PPD, and that parenting interventions can change infant behavior, yet these findings have never been applied to PPD. In this study, the investigators are teaching parenting skills to increase infant nocturnal sleep and reduce fuss/cry behavior to women likely to develop PPD to see if the investigators can prevent the onset of this disorder.
Evidence-based treatments (EBTs) for mental health conditions are often not available to persons needing them in the community. Our aim is to test a novel Internet intervention that has the promise of eventually improving the Reach and Implementation of mental health EBTs, speeding the translation of research successes into improved community care.
'Real life' retrospective patient cases (10) to provide an objective and robust analytical report of patient management and prescriptions behaviours for Schizophrenia, Bipolar disorders and Major depressive disorders.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of Levomilnacipran ER compared to placebo in patients with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD).
Depression is one of the most common mental health problems, with at least one in six adults suffering from this at some time in their life. It can become long-lasting and frequently recurs. Depression has a large negative impact on quality of life of patients and their carers and it has also been shown to be one of the leading causes of working age adults receiving disability payments in the UK. The need for improved treatment has been recognised by the Department of Health and others. Improvements in drug treatments are therefore required. There has been recent increased understanding of some of the causes of the frequent lack of complete response seen with antidepressants. The stress hormone, cortisol, is often elevated or poorly controlled in depression and there is laboratory and clinical research to show that this hormonal change reduces the benefits from antidepressants with associated poor outcome and memory problems. Recently it has been shown in small studies that giving treatments that reduce cortisol or block its harmful effects for between 1 and 3 weeks overcome these negative consequences. Our group is particularly interested and experienced in this topic. The investigators plan to study a drug that decreases cortisol levels in people who have not recovered with standard antidepressants so that the investigators can find out the usefulness of this treatment (compared with placebo (dummy tablet)) in day to day life as well as checking closely for side-effects (the initial studies have shown that the particular drug the investigators wish to study (metyrapone) has few side effects). The investigators will also measure cortisol and see if its level can tell us which people do best with this treatment. The investigators will carry out this study in 3 centres across the UK. The investigators will carry out some additional tests of specific sorts of memory and decision making and also do this while scanning the brain (in a painless test). The results of these tests, along with tests of brain wave patterns, should help us understand more fully how this new treatment is working and who responds best to it. The study will help us find out if this drug should be used more widely for people not responding to standard treatments and will also lead on to the development of other new treatments with an anti-cortisol effect to help tackle the major problem of poor outcome from depression.
This study involves a single dose of 18 milligrams (mg) LY2216684 taken as 1 or 2 tablets by mouth. The study will evaluate effect of LY2216684 on the pharmacokinetics of an oral contraceptive Ortho Cyclen®. This study will run approximately 93 days.
This project will integrate a depression treatment and brief medication adherence counseling intervention into clinical care at three HIV clinics and will use a randomized controlled trial to assess whether, relative to usual care, the intervention leads to improved HIV medication adherence. The depression treatment intervention uses a model known as Measurement-Based Care which equips Depression Care Managers with systematic measurement tools, a decision algorithm, and psychiatric backup and trains them to provide decision support to HIV clinicians to implement, monitor, and adjust antidepressant therapy.
This is a Double-blind Study Evaluating Desvenlafaxine Succinate (DVS SR) Sustained Release vs Placebo in the Treatment of Children and Adolescent Outpatients with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD).
This is a double-blind study evaluating Desvenlafaxine Succinate Sustained-Release (DVS SR) versus placebo in the Treatment of Children and Adolescent Outpatients with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD).