Maintenance Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Sustaining Remission of Depression

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2001-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

This study will evaluate the effectiveness of maintenance interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) in preventing relapse of depression in women who have required combined psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy treatment to obtain a remission of depression symptoms.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh
• Treatments: Fluoxetine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Met all entry criteria for the parent study, "Maintenance Psychotherapy in Recurrent Depression, Study I"

• Began IPT as outlined in the parent study

• Demostrated compliance with IPT sessions during the parent study

• Exhibits less than a 50% reduction in score on the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression after 12 weeks of psychotherapy or fails to meet stabilization criteria after 24 weeks of psychotherapy during the parent study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any unstable medical illness