Long-term Efficacy of Metacognitive Training for Depression (D-MCT)

Launched by UNIVERSITÄTSKLINIKUM HAMBURG-EPPENDORF · May 12, 2016

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Dissemination of treatment for depression is still unsatisfying: every second patient does not receive, refuses, or is waiting for treatment. Moreover, with a drop-out rate of almost 25% in routine clinical practice, and a 54% relapse rate for treatment responders within the two years after treatment termination, improving treatment is necessary. Metacognitive Training for depression (D-MCT), a low threshold, easy to administer group intervention was designed to fill this gap. It aims at the reduction of depressive symptoms by changing cognitive biases; not only biases targeted in cognitive...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria for the current study are:
• • informed consent
• • intention-to-treat-sample of the study Evaluation of Metacognitive Training for Depression (D-MKT) in psychosomatic rehabilitation, DRKS-ID: DRKS00007907 (see Jelinek et al., in press, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics)
• • age between 18 and 65 years
• • diagnosis of a single episode or recurrent major depressive disorder (MDD) or dysthymia (verified by the MINI).
• The exclusion criteria were:
• • lifetime psychotic symptoms (i.e., hallucinations, delusions, or mania), suicidality (Suicidal Behaviors Questionnaire-Revised ≥ 7), intellectual disability (estimated IQ \< 70).