Add-on Therapy With Edupression.Com® on Therapy Resistant Depressive Patients Treated With Nasal Esketamine Spray

NCT ID: NCT04843462

Last Updated: 2022-05-24

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

70 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-04-29

Study Completion Date

2023-04-14

Brief Summary

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Pragmatic clinical trial of an add-on therapy regarding the use of edupression.com® - a licensed computer based self-help program - on patients with therapy-resistant depression receiving esketamine nasal spray

Detailed Description

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edupression.com® - is a medical product and computer based self-help program based on cognitive behavioral therapy, psychoeducation and mood tracking. Patients included in the interventional arm of this study are receiving full access to edupression.com®.

Due to limited resources regarding face-to-face therapy and a high prevalence of Major Depressive Disorder - of which 37% can be identified as therapy-resistant depression (TRD) according to the definition of the European Medical Agency (EMA) - low-intensity psychosocial interventions such as edupression.com® are recommended as first-line digital therapeutic agent by international guidelines such as National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines. Studies have shown that digital interventions - such as edupression.com - show comparable clinical efficiency to face-to-face therapy and therefore could be able to fill the gap in limited ressources. In this study patients with therapy-resistant depression are receiving therapy with edupression.com® in addition to their treatment-as-usual with esketamine nasal spray. Comparable studies have shown that patients receiving psychotherapy in addition to their medical therapy benefit in regards to their clinical outcome. Considering these findings, this study is aimed to investigate potential clinical benefits in patients receiving digital therapy with edupression®.com as an add-on therapy to their treatment-as-usual therapy with esketamine nasal spray.

Conditions

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Major Depressive Disorder Therapy Resistant Depression

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

The interventional study consists of two parallel study arms. The interventional group receives "treatment-as-usual" with nasal esketamine spray and access to edupression.com®. The control group only receives "treatment-as-usual".
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants
Data will be immediately pseudonymized and stored as a master list at the internal server of the MUV (Medical University Vienna). The study staff will only have access to the master list and only the principal investigator and study director will have access to the pseudonymization list. This locked place will be located at the clinic (MUV). All non-personal pseudonymized research relevant data are stored in a master list on a server of the research group at the MUV, to which study staff has access.

Study Groups

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edupression.com® + treatment-as-usual

Patients are receiving treatment with edupression.com® in addition to TAU (treatment-as-usual) with esketamine nasal spray

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

edupression.com®

Intervention Type DEVICE

Edupression.com® is an evidence-based self-help program that was developed for the treatment of mild to moderate unipolar depression. It is based on two core foundations, psychoeducation with elements of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and a mood chart. Both foundations are registered as a medical product. As such, detailed risk management documentation includes probability and severity of adverse events. Moreover, detailed strategies such as warnings were implemented in the software and documented accordingly.

It can be used on a PC as well as on mobile devices (browser, app) at any time.

Esketamine nasal spray

Intervention Type DRUG

All patients included in this study are receiving esketamine nasal spray as treatment-as-usual

treatment-as-usual

Patients are receiving TAU (treatment-as-usual) with esketamine nasal spray

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Esketamine nasal spray

Intervention Type DRUG

All patients included in this study are receiving esketamine nasal spray as treatment-as-usual

Interventions

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edupression.com®

Edupression.com® is an evidence-based self-help program that was developed for the treatment of mild to moderate unipolar depression. It is based on two core foundations, psychoeducation with elements of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and a mood chart. Both foundations are registered as a medical product. As such, detailed risk management documentation includes probability and severity of adverse events. Moreover, detailed strategies such as warnings were implemented in the software and documented accordingly.

It can be used on a PC as well as on mobile devices (browser, app) at any time.

Intervention Type DEVICE

Esketamine nasal spray

All patients included in this study are receiving esketamine nasal spray as treatment-as-usual

Intervention Type DRUG

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Age 18 or older
* Initial MADRS-Score of 22 or above
* Diagnosis of a therapy-resistant depression following the definition of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) - absence of remission after two or more guideline-oriented therapies
* Patients assigned to treatment with nasal esketamine spray Spravato®
* Signed informed consent
* Native German speaker
* Basic knowledge in using computers/smartphones operationalized as daily use of at least two devices (such as tablets, computers, smartphones etc)

Exclusion Criteria

* Contraindication regarding the use of Spravato®
* Diagnosis of one of the following psychiatric comorbidities: substance abuse, schizoaffective disorders, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, organic disorders diagnosed via Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI)
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Lukas Pezawas

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Lukas Pezawas

Assoc.Prof. Priv.Doz. Dr. Lukas Pezawas

Responsibility Role SPONSOR_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Markus Dold, MD., Priv.Doz.

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Medical University of Vienna

Gabriele Fischer, MD, Prof.

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Medical University of Vienna

Lukas M Pezawas, MD, Prof.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Medical University of Vienna

Locations

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Medical University Vienna

Vienna, , Austria

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Austria

Central Contacts

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Lukas M Pezawas, MD, Prof.

Role: CONTACT

004314040035470

Gabriele Fischer, MD, Prof.

Role: CONTACT

004314040035470

Facility Contacts

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Lukas M Pezawas, Prof.

Role: primary

References

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National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (UK). Depression: The Treatment and Management of Depression in Adults (Updated Edition). Leicester (UK): British Psychological Society; 2010. Available from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK63748/

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 22132433 (View on PubMed)

Luo C, Sanger N, Singhal N, Pattrick K, Shams I, Shahid H, Hoang P, Schmidt J, Lee J, Haber S, Puckering M, Buchanan N, Lee P, Ng K, Sun S, Kheyson S, Chung DC, Sanger S, Thabane L, Samaan Z. A comparison of electronically-delivered and face to face cognitive behavioural therapies in depressive disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis. EClinicalMedicine. 2020 Jun 27;24:100442. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100442. eCollection 2020 Jul.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 32775969 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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2467/2020

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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