Social Interaction and Compassion in Depression — SIDE  

Depression Clinical Trial

Official title: The Effects of a Cognitively-based Compassion Training on Health and Social Interaction in Depressed Patients and Their Partners

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine how a CBCT® (Cognitively Based Compassion-Training) for couples affect aspects of health and especially social interactions in depressed female patients and their romantic partners. compare healthy and depressed couples during an instructed positive real-time social interaction in the laboratory.

Furthermore the investigators aim to examine how social behavior and psychobiological indicators of health during real-time social interaction in the laboratory might be improved through CBCT® for couples.

Clinical Trial Description

Objects:

Will a CBCT® (Cognitively Based Compassion-Training) for couples reduce the depressive symptomatic and the partners´ burden as well as improve behavioral, endocrine, physiological and immune responses during a real time social interaction in the laboratory.

Do couples with a depressed female partner differ from healthy control couples in behavioral, endocrine, physiological and immune responses during a instructed positive real-time social interaction in a laboratory setting? ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Depression
• Depressive Disorder

• NCT number: NCT03080025
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Heidelberg University
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 2017
• Completion date: August 2019