Maintenance Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Sustaining Remission of Depression

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Depression

In brief

This study will evaluate the effectiveness of maintenance interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) in preventing relapse of depression in women who have required combined psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy treatment to obtain a remission of depression symptoms.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00227981

Run by

University of Pittsburgh

People needed

93

Starts

1995-03-01

Expected to finish

2001-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-06-25

Who can join

Age: 20 and older, up to 60. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Met all entry criteria for the parent study, "Maintenance Psychotherapy in Recurrent Depression, Study I"
• Began IPT as outlined in the parent study
• Demostrated compliance with IPT sessions during the parent study
• Exhibits less than a 50% reduction in score on the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression after 12 weeks of psychotherapy or fails to meet stabilization criteria after 24 weeks of psychotherapy during the parent study

You may not qualify if…

• Any unstable medical illness

Where it is running

• Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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