Effectiveness of Internet-based Depression Treatment — EVIDENT  

Mild to Moderate Depressive Symptoms Clinical Trial

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

Care for people suffering from depressive symptoms should be given in a step-wise approach. One first step can be the provision of self-help material. Online self-help is an innovative way of providing self-help. The investigators want to study the effect of an interactive online self-help-program (Deprexis) in the treatment of mild to moderate depressive symptoms. Participants will be randomised to either twelve weeks of online-self help or a waiting-list control. Symptoms of depression and other aspects will be assessed over a one year period. Thereafter the controls will also receive online-self help. The investigators hypothesise that online self-help is superior to the control condition in alleviating depressive symptoms and preventing full blown depression.

Clinical Trial Description

This study is supported by the German Ministry of Health (BMG) and is a collaborative project of Universität Bern (PD Dr. Thomas Berger), Charité Berlin (PD Dr. Matthias Rose), Universität Bielefeld (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Greiner), Universität Hamburg (Prof. Dr. Steffen Moritz, Prof. Dr. Bernd Löwe), GAIA AG Hamburg (Dr. Björn Meyer), Universität Tübingen (Prof. Dr. Martin Hautzinger) and Universität Trier (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lutz). ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Depression
• Mild to Moderate Depressive Symptoms

• NCT number: NCT01636752
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Luebeck
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: July 2012
• Completion date: February 2017