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Telehealth Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Depression in Parkinson's Disease
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating TH-CBT and Standard Care for Depression and Parkinson's Disease. Completed, enrolled 174 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
When Veterans with Parkinson's disease (PD) suffer from depression, they are more likely to experience disease complications, interpersonal difficulties with caregivers, and poorer quality of life. Unfortunately, depression in Veterans with PD is inadequately treated at the current time. Treatment for depressed Veterans with PD will require the elimination of geographical barriers to care and approaches that address the unique aspects of PD. The proposed study will be the first to explore a novel and innovative, PD-informed psychotherapy package for depressed Veterans with PD and their Caregivers, delivered through video-to-home telehealth. If the results of this proposal are promising, a much needed treatment can be made available to Veterans with PD and their Caregivers across the country, regardless of geographical location.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
The TH-CBT group will receive the study intervention and standard care. The study treatment has been previously manualized and modified for remote administration, as described in the introduction to the revised application.12 PD Veterans will receive 10 weekly individual sessions (60 minutes each) of CBT, delivered via Video-to-Home (V2H).
Standard Care is defined as medical and psychiatric treatment provided by patients' personal doctors (e.g., neurologists, psychiatrists, therapists). Veterans will continue to receive routine clinical care and will remain on all depression treatments that they were receiving prior to their study (e.g., stable anti-depressant medications, established psychotherapy, clinical monitoring).