Enhancing inpatient psychotherapeutic treatment with online self-help: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Depression is one of the most debilitating and costly mental disorders. There is increasing evidence for the efficacy of online self-help in alleviating depression. Knowledge regarding the options of combining online self-help with inpatient psychotherapy is still limited. Therefore, we plan to evaluate an evidence-based self-help program (deprexis®; Gaia AG, Hamburg, Germany) to improve the efficacy of inpatient psychotherapy and to maintain treatment effects in the aftercare period.

Methods/design

Depressed patients (n = 240) with private internet access aged between 18 and 65 are recruited during psychosomatic inpatient treatment. Participants are randomized to an intervention or control group at the beginning of inpatient treatment. The intervention group (n =

SUBMITTER: Zwerenz R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4376072 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature