Overview

Comparison of Treatment Effect of Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine on Depression in China and America

Status:
Unknown status
Trial end date:
2014-07-01
Target enrollment:
0
Participant gender:
All
Summary
Comparison of different assessment methods to evaluate the treatment efficacy of Chinese medicine on minor and mild depression.
Phase:
N/A
Accepts Healthy Volunteers?
No
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Guang'anmen Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences
Collaborators:
California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute
Massachusetts General Hospital
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:

- According with ICD-10 criteria of depression;

- Age 16-70;

- Antidepressant and other Psychiatric drugs have not been had two weeks before the
trial, or the drugs above had been used but have cleaning period of two weeks;

- Level of education is higher than junior middle school;

- Course of disease is more than two weeks;

- Volunteer to join and Signed the informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

- Pregnancy or lactation;

- Severe depression or have serious suicidal tendencies

- long distance or other causes who can not adherence to treatment