Augmenting Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Major Depressive Disorder With Low-Level Light Therapy

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · Sep 7, 2016

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ClinConnect Summary

1. Online screening Following a digital informed consent, all participants will complete a brief online screening questionnaire to determine the severity level of their depression, using the Center for Epidemiological Studies - Depression Scale (CES-D). Initial consent and screening procedures will be conducted online via Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap), a secure, on-line assessment tool designed to collect self-report questionnaire data for research studies. Participants with a CES-D score of 16 or higher will be eligible to continue with the study. At this initial screening, eli...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • ability to speak, read, and understand English fluently
• • owns a smartphone and able to receive emails on their phone and access REDCap on a web browser on their phone
• • current depressive episode as determined by the Center for Epidemiological Studies - Depression Screening (CES-D) and Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI)
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • serious medical complications, including conditions that change electrical functioning in the brain (e.g., cancer, diabetes, epilepsy, head trauma, history of brain surgery, neurocognitive impairment, stroke, transient ischemic attack)
• • comorbid psychiatric disorders, excluding anxiety disorders, as determined by Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI)