INpatient and Day-clinic treatment for DEPression: who profits well and who don´t?

ISRCTN ISRCTN20317064
DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN20317064
Secondary identifying numbers 59055.02.1/2.10
Submission date
16/07/2012
Registration date
31/07/2012
Last edited
02/09/2020
Recruitment status
No longer recruiting
Overall study status
Completed
Condition category
Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Prospectively registered
Protocol
Statistical analysis plan
Results
Individual participant data

Plain English summary of protocol

Background and study aims
Depression is one of the most common diseases and a leading cause of disability worldwide. The German health care system provides outpatient care, but also inpatient and day hospital treatment, covering a considerable part of health care for people with mental illnesses. Hospital programs have the advantage of providing a multimodal approach, combining a daily structure with individual, group and additional treatment components. Day hospital programs for acute psychosomatic care are very similar to inpatient programs with the difference that patients return home at evenings and weekends. In Germany, there is an increasing interest in day care programs because of the lower costs of this treatment modality. The treatment of depression is a high priority task, but there is still a lack of studies on inpatient or day hospital treatment. Furthermore, depression in one subject is not like depression in another. Tailoring treatments to the needs of subgroups of patients with special characteristics may improve overall outcome. This study aims to find out about the effects of inpatient and day hospital treatment for major depression in routine care. It further aims at identifying ‘prognostic’ (associated with general outcome) and ‘prescriptive’ (associated with the differential outcome in both settings) variables, which can help to discriminate subgroups of patients with differences in course and treatment needs. This is especially important in clinic treatment, as patients referred to hospital usually show a more complicated course of their illness or considerable co-morbidity (other illnesses).

Who can participate?
Patients aged 18-65 years with a diagnosis of a major depressive episode treated in the study centres during the recruitment period.

What does the study involve?
After informed consent participants will get diagnostic interviews and additional questionnaires for evaluation. They will be interviewed and receive questionnaires at the time of discharge from the hospital. At 3 and 12 months after discharge they will be interviewed again and asked to fill in questionnaires to assess depressive symptoms, overall functioning, quality of life and further treatment.

What are the possible benefits and risks of participating?
All participants receive comprehensive diagnostic interviews. As all participants get the standard treatment of the study centres, there are no additional risks compared to routine care.

Where is the study run from?
Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, University of Freiburg and the following cooperating centres: Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, University of Ulm; Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, University of Mainz; Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine, Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus Stuttgart; Thure-von Uexküll-Klinik, Freiburg; Bürgerhospital, Stuttgart; Rhein-Klinik, Bad Honnef.

When is the study starting and how long is it expected to run?
The study has started in March 2011 and ends in February 2015.

Who is funding the study?
The Heidehof-Stiftung GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany.

Who is the main contact?
Prof. Almut Zeeck
almut.zeeck@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Contact information

Prof Almut Zeeck
Scientific

Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy
University of Freiburg
Hauptstrasse 8
Freiburg
79104
Germany

Email almut.zeeck@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Study information

Study designNaturalistic multicentre study
Primary study designInterventional
Secondary study designOther
Study setting(s)Hospital
Study typeScreening
Participant information sheet Not available in web format, please use the contact details below to request a patient information sheet
Scientific titleINpatient and Day-clinic treatment for DEPression: symptom course and response prediction
Study acronymINDDEP
Study objectivesFirst, the study aims to describe changes in depressive symptomatology after inpatient and day clinic treatment for depression and to identify subgroups with a good or less favourable symptom course (explorative).

Secondly, inpatient and day clinic treatment will be compared (matched samples). It is hypothezied that type of depression (introjective/high level of perfectionism vs. anaclitic/high level for dependency) will be associated with differential outcome in each setting.
Ethics approval(s)Ethics Committee of the University Clinic of Freiburg, 22/02/2011, ref: No. 39/11
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studiedMajor Depression (inpatient and day clinic treatment)
InterventionWe include all patients who are consecutively admitted to the study centres over a period of 2.5 years. To compare inpatient and day clinic treatment (especially differences in predictors of symptom course and response rates), patient samples will be parallelized according to known predictors of outcome:
1. Gender
2. Age
3. Number of additional axis-I diagnoses
4. Number of previous episodes of major depression
5. Duration of the recent episode of MDE.

Criteria 1-3 will be matched 1:1, criteria 4 & 5 are used as lenient criteria, to be matched 1:1 if possible.

Interventions comprise the standard programms of psychosomatic clinics: individual psychotherapy sessions, group psychotherapy, sessions with nurses, art therapy or music therapy, movement therapy, physicians rounds, psychopharmacological treatment. Day clinic and inpatient programms are comparable, although the settings differ in a crucial aspect: in a day clinic intense, multimodal treatment and experiences in daily life are closely linked.
Intervention typeOther
Primary outcome measureDepressive symptomatology, assessed with the QIDS-C (Quick-Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology, expert rating) at pre, post and follow-ups (3 and 12 month after discharge)
1. Change in symptoms will be assessed:
1.1. Dimensional (change in QIDS-score)
1.2. Categorial: reduction < 20%= no effect; reduction between 20% and 50%=modest change; reduction > 50=partial remission; falling below the cut-off for depression=complete remission)
Secondary outcome measures1. Global severity index (GSI), Symptom-Check-List-90-R
2. Social and Occupational Functioning Assessment Scale (SOFAS)
3. Quality of Life SF-12

Predictor analyses include:
1. Symptomatology (characteristics of depression, co-morbodity, axis-II-diagnoses) and overall disturbance
2. Demographics
3.Personality and interpersonal problems (DEQ: Depressive Experience Questionnaire; DAS: Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale; IIP: Inventory of Interpersonal Problems)
4. Traumatization (CTQ: Childhood-Trauma-Questionnaire)

Follow up: 3 and 12 months after discharge.
Overall study start date01/03/2011
Completion date01/03/2015

Eligibility

Participant type(s)Patient
Age groupAdult
Lower age limit18 Years
Upper age limit65 Years
SexBoth
Target number of participants600 (after matching procedure: 240 vs. 240)
Total final enrolment604
Key inclusion criteria1. Major depressive episode (MDE), unipolar, according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) as main diagnosis
2. Age 18-65 years
3. Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology (QIDS)-expert rating score > 10
4. Informed consent
Key exclusion criteria1. Psychotic disorder
2. Bipolar disorder
3. Substance abuse (current or last three years)
4. Current suicidal ideation
5. Antisocial personality disorder
6. Cognitive impairment
7. Admission for diagnostic reasons (not for treatment)
8. Second admission during recruitment period
Date of first enrolment01/03/2011
Date of final enrolment01/03/2015

Locations

Countries of recruitment

  • Germany

Study participating centre

Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy
Freiburg
79104
Germany

Sponsor information

Heidehof Foundation Ltd. (Heidehof Stiftung GmbH) (Germany)
Government

Heidehofstrasse 35A
Stuttgart
70184
Germany

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Funders

Funder type

Government

Heidehof Foundation Ltd. (Heidehof Stiftung GmbH) (Germany)

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Results and Publications

Intention to publish date
Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to shareNo
IPD sharing plan summaryNot provided at time of registration
Publication and dissemination planNot provided at time of registration
IPD sharing plan

Study outputs

Output type Details Date created Date added Peer reviewed? Patient-facing?
Protocol article protocol 26/03/2013 Yes No
Results article results 15/11/2015 25/06/2020 Yes No
Results article results 01/07/2020 25/06/2020 Yes No
Results article results 07/08/2020 02/09/2020 Yes No

Editorial Notes

02/09/2020: The following changes have been made:
1. Publication reference added.
2. The total final enrolment number has been added from the reference.
25/06/2020: Publication references added.