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The major objective of this study is to evaluate a new conceptualized personalized concept of Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASPersonalized) in the treatment of patients with persistent depressive disorder (PDD), childhood maltreatment and a high rate of comorbidity. Patients receive a two-phase-treatment-program (six-weeks inpatient-treatment and six-to-twelve-weeks blended-online-aftercare) in combination with standardized pharmacotherapy in a routine clinical inpatient setting. This study addresses the primary research question: Is an intensive six-week inpatient CBASPersonalized treatment feasible and effective in a clinical sample of PDD patients? In addition, moderator, process and long-term analyses will be conducted for differential insights.


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Background: Persistent depressive disorder (PDD) is a prevalent disabling disorder. Given its high degree of treatment-resistance (TR), comorbidity, and suicidality, this patient group constitutes a massive health problem. The Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) was specifically developed for the outpatient treatment of PDD showing superiority to active control groups in some studies. However, non-remission and relapse rates of CBASP are relatively high, which might be caused by the fact that within the original CBASP-concept the frequent comorbid disorders are not sufficiently addressed. Thus, an optimized personalized short and intensive CBASP-concept (CBASPersonalized) was established including the interpersonal CBASP-strategies while adding evidence-based intrapersonal strategies being tailored to the specific comorbid problems. In this study, the investigators will evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of CBASPersonalized. Patients will receive a six-week inpatient treatment followed by a six-to-twelve-week blended-online-aftercare (CBASPersonalized@home) in combination with standardized pharmacotherapy in a routine clinical inpatient setting.

Methods: In the proposed prospective, mono-site study, 100 PDD patients with childhood maltreatment will be included. The study addresses the primary research question: Is an intensive six-week inpatient CBASPersonalized treatment feasible and effective in a clinical sample of PDD patients? It is hypothesized that six weeks after admission, CBASPersonalized will evoke significant reduction in depressive symptomatology (according to the 24-item version of the Hamilton Rating Scale of Depression, HRSD). The feasibility (acceptance and subjective experience) is assessed on the basis of the dropout rate and a self-assessed questionnaire, which measures satisfaction with and subjective effectiveness of the specific treatment components.

In addition, moderator, process and long-term analyses will be conducted for differential insights. Primary and secondary outcome will be analyzed using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) controlling for pre-treatment scores. Moderator and process analyses will be performed using multiple regression and linear mixed models.

As a specific secondary research question, we will examine the associations between childhood maltreatment (CM), depression severity, and potential psychological mechanisms of this associations (emotion regulation, self-compassion, empathic distress, interpersonal problems) at the beginning of treatment. In addition, we will explore which changes in the potential psychological mechanisms are particularly closely related to changes in depressive symptoms.

As another additional research question, we will examine the associations between the state-like therapeutic alliance, trait-like alliance, and depression severity. We want to explore these associations as a possible effect mechanism and specify a possible transfer to CBASP specific mechanisms of actions.

Finally, the analyses of the outcomes at the end of the six-to-twelve week blended online-aftercare and the follow-up survey 6 months after end of treatment will provide important results on the blended after-care program as well as longterm treatment outcome. Of note, we will evaluate the online continuation treatment CBASPersonalized@home regarding feasibility. Therefore, patients' expectations towards the intervention, their adherence (completed modules and exercises), acceptance and satisfaction with the intervention as well as the perceived fit and perceived effectiveness and usability of the intervention will be analyzed. Depression severity at the beginning of CBASPersonalized@home, expectations, satisfaction and therapeutic alliance will be analyzed as possible predictors of adherence. A possible relationship between changes in depressive symptoms in the course of the continuation treatment and adherence will be explored. ;


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NCT number NCT03616665
Study type Interventional
Source Philipps University Marburg Medical Center
Contact Eva-Lotta Brakemeier, Prof. Dr.
Phone +491711278600
Email eva-lotta.brakemeier@uni-greifswald.de
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date April 1, 2019
Completion date September 30, 2021

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