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Each year more than a million Australians experience depression. With time and treatment, most will recover, but for many of these people the problem will come back. This study is looking at two approaches to managing risk of relapse:
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is a new psychological treatment combining principles of cognitive therapy and mindfulness meditation. It is designed to prevent depressive relapse in people who have recovered from depressive episodes.
- An alternative strategy for managing long-term risk of depressive relapse is to pick up relapses early and encourage people to seek treatment, and this approach is taken in the other treatment condition in this study, Depression Relapse Active Monitoring (DRAM)
This project will find out which of MBCT or DRAM alone, both when added to existing treatments, is more effective in preventing depressive relapse for people who have already have had three episodes of depression. The results will be important in deciding what approaches to long term self management to recommend for people who have had repeated experience of depression.
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Information for current participants
Information for clinicians and researchers
Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) scoring for doctor or healthcare professional (pdf 94kb).
Download Acrobat Reader to view PHQ Instructions.
This work is supported through the National Health and Medical Research Council and has Human Research and Ethics Approvals from several University and Health Care Committees.
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