TY - JOUR
AU - Dafsari, Forugh S
AU - Bewernick, Bettina
AU - Böhringer, Sabine
AU - Domschke, Katharina
AU - Elsaesser, Moritz
AU - Löbner, Margrit
AU - Luppa, Melanie
AU - Preis, Lukas
AU - Püsken, Julia
AU - Schmitt, Sandra
AU - Szekely, Andreea-Johanna
AU - Hellmich, Martin
AU - Müller, Wiebke
AU - Wagner, Michael
AU - Peters, Oliver
AU - Frölich, Lutz
AU - Riedel-Heller, Steffi
AU - Schramm, Elisabeth
AU - Hautzinger, Martin
AU - Jessen, Frank
TI - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Late-Life Depression (CBTlate): Results of a Multicenter, Randomized, Observer-Blinded, Controlled Trial.
JO - Psychotherapy and psychosomatics
VL - 92
SN - 0033-3190
CY - Basel
PB - Karger
M1 - DZNE-2023-00472
SP - 180-192
PY - 2023
AB - Different psychotherapeutic interventions for late-life depression (LLD) have been proposed, but their evaluation in large, multicenter trials is rare.The present study evaluated the efficacy of a specific cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for LLD (LLD-CBT) in comparison with a supportive unspecific intervention (SUI), both administered in a specialist psychiatric outpatient setting.In this randomized, controlled, parallel group trial, we recruited participants (≥60 years) with moderate to severe depression at 7 trial sites in Germany. Participants were randomly assigned to the LLD-CBT or SUI group. The primary outcome was depression severity at the end of treatment measured by change on the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS). Secondary outcomes included change in observer-rated depression, anxiety, sleep ratings, and quality of life throughout the treatment phase and at 6-month follow-up.Between October 1, 2018, and November 11, 2020, we randomly assigned 251 patients to either LLD-CBT (n = 126) or SUI (n = 125), of whom 229 provided primary-outcome data. There was no significant between-group difference in the change in GDS scores at the end of treatment (estimated marginal mean difference: -1.01 [95
KW - Humans
KW - Aged
KW - Depression: therapy
KW - Depression: psychology
KW - Quality of Life
KW - Treatment Outcome
KW - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: methods
KW - Depressive Disorder: therapy
KW - Cognitive behavioral therapy (Other)
KW - Geriatric depression (Other)
KW - Late-life depression (Other)
KW - Randomized controlled trial (Other)
KW - Supportive psychotherapy (Other)
LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6 - pmid:37004508
DO - DOI:10.1159/000529445
UR - https://pub.dzne.de/record/257675
ER -