CRT-Advance: Psychotherapy with focus on advancing sleep timing, using diaries on sleep and zeitgebers.
Treatment as usual: Treatment as usual in the outpatient psychiatric unit.
Study summary
150 patients with moderate to severe depression, recently discharged from a psychiatric ward and now recieving treatment at an outpatient unit at Mental Health Center Copenhagen, will be randomised in to two groups. A treatment ad usual (TAU) group and an Advance-group. The Advance-group will receive a psychotherapeutic intervention focusing on advancing sleep timing to improve depression.
Eligibility
Sex
ALL
Min age
18 Years
Max age
—
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion Criteria:
* Moderate to major depression (DSM-V)
* Discharge from psychiatric ward within last 30 days
* Sleep onset and/or sleep off-set delayed minimum 1 hour based on the last three days, comparred to sleep in the last week of admittance at the psychiatric ward.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Psychotic depression.
* Cognitive problems making participation difficult.
* Substance abuse (e.g. alcohol).
* Increased suicidal risk.
Primary outcome measure(s)
Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) — at inclusion, at two weeks, at fourweeks, at six weeks, and at endpoint (after eight weeks) Patients will do af self-rating with the Beck Depression IInventory-II self-rating scale. Minimum score is 0, maximum score is 63. A higher score indicates a worsening of depression symptoms
Trial sites (1)
Facility
City
Region
Status
Mental Health Center Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Frederiksberg
Recruiting
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This page summarises publicly available registry data for informational purposes — not medical advice. Eligibility is determined by each study team; patients should discuss participation with their clinician.
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