Living Well With Stroke

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Cerebrovascular Stroke, Depression

In brief

The overall goal of this study is to conduct a three-armed randomized controlled trial (RCT) in stroke survivors with depression to determine if a brief psychosocial-behavioral therapy intervention delivered in-person (arm A) or by telephone (arm B) is better than usual care (arm C), in terms of percent reduction in depressive symptoms and % of participants achieving remission of symptoms.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01133106

Run by

University of Washington

People needed

100

Starts

2010-05-01

Expected to finish

2015-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-05-23

Who can join

Age: 21 and older, up to 100. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• hospitalized for an ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke (intraparenchymal hemorrhage- IPH or subarachnoid hemorrhage - SAH) in the past 3 months
• clinical depression symptoms (Geriatric Depression Score -GDS >= 11

You may not qualify if…

• major psychiatric co-morbidity
• active suicidal ideation without ability to contract for safety
• current substance abuse
• physical inability to tolerate 1-2 hour sessions
• receptive or global aphasia
• reduced level of consciousness (GCS<15).

Where it is running

• University of Washington — Seattle, Washington, United States

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