Body Awareness in People With Depressive Disorder
ConditionDepressive Disorder
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age18-69
SponsorJohannes Kepler University of Linz
About this trial
Body awareness plays a crucial role in health and well-being. However, too little research has been carried out on how it manifests in individuals with depressive disorders. The Awareness Body Chart (ABC), a tool developed in recent years to assess body awareness, may provide new insights into the physical experience of people with depression and may lead the way in the application of body-oriented therapies in this cohort. Information about the distribution properties of the Awareness Body Chart in people with depressive disorder will be collected and analysed in this observational study.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Age 18 - 69 years
F32 Depressive Episode
F33 Recurrent Depressive Disorder
F31.3 Bipolar Affective Disorder, current mild or moderate depressive episode
Disqualifiers
Inability to fill out questionnaires with or without assistance due to language, physical, or cognitive limitations
Acute psychotic state
Known body schema disorders, e.g. due to significant neurological or malignant diseases, eating disorders, congenital or acquired physical limitations such as the absence of a body part
Deafness, blindness
Trial population
Patients with depressive disorders at the beginning and end of an inpatient stay.
Trial design
Design model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Treatments tested in this trial
Not listed
Trial groups
125 Participants
are grouped into 1 trial groupGroup A: Patients with depressive disorders
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Awareness Body Chart Questionnaire (ABC)
Body charts to fill in with colours according to intensity of body awareness. In sum, 51 body regions to colour with 5 different colour pencils (orange = "I can perceive with much detail", yellow = "I can perceive distinctly", green = "I can perceive", blue = "I can perceive indistinctly", black = "I cannot perceive"). To quantify the information, every region of the body will be coded as an extra item and the data of the colours will be transcribed: orange (= 5), yellow (= 4), green (= 3), blue (= 2), black (= 1). Higher values mean higher intensity of body awareness. In the case of pain, the pain location can also be marked on the body chart with a red pen and recorded on a 100 mm Visual Analogue Scale from 0 (no pain) to 100 (unbearable pain).
Time frame
Within the first 7 days after admissionSecondary outcomes
1
Awareness Body Chart Questionnaire (ABC)
Body charts to fill in with colours according to intensity of body awareness. In sum, 51 body regions to colour with 5 different colour pencils (orange = "I can perceive with much detail", yellow = "I can perceive distinctly", green = "I can perceive", blue = "I can perceive indistinctly", black = "I cannot perceive"). To quantify the information, every region of the body will be coded as an extra item and the data of the colours will be transcribed: orange (= 5), yellow (= 4), green (= 3), blue (= 2), black (= 1). Higher values mean higher intensity of body awareness. In the case of pain, the pain location can also be marked on the body chart with a red pen and recorded on a 100 mm Visual Analogue Scale from 0 (no pain) to 100 (unbearable pain).
Time frame
Before discharge2
Like/Dislike Body Chart
As an extension to the ABC, this questionnaire is intended to answer the question of whether there are areas of the body that one particularly likes about oneself or that one dislikes about oneself. If yes, one can draw these with a purple color pencil ("particularly like") and/or with a gray color pencil ("do not like") in an extra Body Chart.
Time frame
Within the first 7 days after admission and before discharge3
Self-rating mood scale - revised
Verbal questionnaire concerning mood status. 24 pairs of oppositional adjectives concerning mood: One of them or \<neither nor\> should be ticked, depending on how it best corresponds to the current situation. The negative pole = 2. The positive pole = 0. \<neither nor\> = 1. Higher sum scores indicate worse subjective mood, lower values better mood.
Time frame
Within the first 7 days after admission and before discharge4
Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II)
The BDI-II represents a self-rating instrument to assess the severity of depression. Four statements are given for each of 21 questions, from which the one that best describes how the person has felt in the past week is to be selected. In scoring, each item is given a score of 0 to 3, depending on the choice (higher number means higher depression scores), and after directly adding the scores of the individual items, a total score of 0 to 63 is obtained. A score of 9-13 is considered minimal depression, 14-19 is mild depression, 20-28 is moderate depression, and scores above 29 indicate severe depression.
Time frame
Within the first 7 days after admission and before dischargeSponsors and contacts
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Source ClinicalTrials.gov