The Advance Project - Advancing Sleep Timing to Improve Depression

ConditionDepression
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorUniversity Hospital Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg

About this trial

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 criteria

Qualifiers

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.

Disqualifiers

Psychotic depression.

Cognitive problems making participation difficult.

Substance abuse (e.g. alcohol).

Increased suicidal risk.

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • CRT-Advance
  • Treatment as usual

Treatment groups

150 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups