Paroxetine and Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Maintaining Health and Well-being in Elderly Individuals With Depression - Full Text View

Purpose

This study will evaluate the effectiveness of paroxetine versus interpersonal psychotherapy and a combination of the two in helping elderly patients with depression remain well and improve quality of their lives.

Condition	Intervention	Phase
Unipolar Depression	Behavioral: Interpersonal Psychotherapy Drug: paroxetine	Phase 4


Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment Masking: Double-Blind Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title:	Maintenance Therapies in Late-Life Depression 2 (MTLD-2)

Resource links provided by NLM:

Drug Information available for: Paroxetine Paroxetine hydrochloride Paroxetine hydrochloride hemihydrate Paroxetine Mesylate

U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by University of Pittsburgh:

Primary Outcome Measures:

Combined treatment with paroxetine and interpersonal psychotherapy will be superior to either treatment alone (and to placebo)in preventing recurrence of major depressive episodes in patients aged 70 and above.

Secondary Outcome Measures:

Cognitive status: Folstein Mini-Mental Status Exam, MATTIS Dementia Rating Scale, EXIT, and CDR
Quality of Life measures: Quality of Wellbeing Scale, CIDI Health Services Utilization, Older American Resources and Services Activities of Daily Living Scale, Global Assessment Scale, PSQI, SF-36, UKU, and CIRS-G
Social Support: Interpersonal Support Evaluation List, Luben Social Network Scale; and Life Events and Difficulties Schedule
Psychiatric status: SCID, Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, Suicidal History Questionnaire, Antidepressant Treatment History Form, Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, and anxiety subscale of Brief Symptom Inventory
MRI


Estimated Enrollment:	225
Study Start Date:	March 1999
Estimated Study Completion Date:	August 2005

Detailed Description:

This is primarily a study of maintenance therapies, not a study of acute therapeutic efficacy, in late-life major depression. The study aims to identify factors that encourage maintenance of treatment gains and to identify which patients need which kinds of treatment to remain well. The following questions are to be addressed:

Is the probability of recurrence different among the treatment groups?
What variables may be related to, or predictive of, differences among groups?
After 1 to 2 years of maintenance therapy, will patients assigned to maintenance combined treatment with both paroxetine and interpersonal psychotherapy remain well at higher rates than patients assigned to paroxetine alone, interpersonal psychotherapy alone, or placebo?
Will the time to recurrence differ across treatment groups, and what variables may be related to, or predictive of, time to recurrence?

The major study hypothesis is that combined treatment with paroxetine and interpersonal psychotherapy will be superior to either treatment alone (and to placebo) in preventing recurrence of major depressive episodes in patients aged 70 and above.

For information on related studies, please follow these links:

http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00000377

http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00177671

Eligibility


Ages Eligible for Study:	69 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Age 69 or older
meets DSM-IV criteria for current unipolar major depression
HRSD (17 item) score of 15 or higher
Folstein Mini Mental Status exam score of 18 or higher

Exclusion Criteria:

Lifetime diagnosis of any psychotic disorder or bipolar disorder
alcohol or drug abuse within the past six months
MATTIS Dementia Rating Score of 120 or less
Contraindication to SSRI therapy
Hyponatremia

Contacts and Locations

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00178100

Locations


United States, Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213

Sponsors and Collaborators

University of Pittsburgh

Investigators


Principal Investigator:	Charles F Reynolds III, MD	University of Pittsburgh

More Information

Additional Information:

An online resource for older individuals with mental health needs This link exits the ClinicalTrials.gov site

Publications:

Reynolds CF 3rd, Dew MA, Pollock BG, Mulsant BH, Frank E, Miller MD, Houck PR, Mazumdar S, Butters MA, Stack JA, Schlernitzauer MA, Whyte EM, Gildengers A, Karp J, Lenze E, Szanto K, Bensasi S, Kupfer DJ. Maintenance treatment of major depression in old age. N Engl J Med. 2006 Mar 16;354(11):1130-8.

Additional publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):

Carreira K, Miller MD, Frank E, Houck PR, Morse JQ, Dew MA, Butters' MA, Reynolds CF 3rd. A controlled evaluation of monthly maintenance interpersonal psychotherapy in late-life depression with varying levels of cognitive function. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2008 Nov;23(11):1110-3. doi: 10.1002/gps.2031.


ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00178100 History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers:	R01 MH043832-02, 971156, DATR A4-GPS
Study First Received:	September 13, 2005
Last Updated:	July 31, 2013
Health Authority:	United States: Federal Government

Keywords provided by University of Pittsburgh:


Depression Elderly Late Life

Additional relevant MeSH terms:


Depression Depressive Disorder Behavioral Symptoms Mental Disorders Mood Disorders

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