Status:
COMPLETED
Pulsed Electro Magnetic Fields (PEMF) Treatment in Patients With Treatment-Resistant Major Depression in Ongoing Pharmacological Treatment of Depression
Lead Sponsor:
Hillerod Hospital, Denmark
Collaborating Sponsors:
The Lundbeckfoundation
Biofields
Conditions:
Depression
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
PHASE3
Brief Summary
About 30% of patients with major depression are treatment resistant to pharmacological treatment. In the search for new methods to treat depression a great interest has been put into the use of electr...
Detailed Description
In this study, a patient with treatment resistant depression, as defined by Harold Sackeim, is subjected to 5 weeks of treatment with active or sham PEMF treatment for 30 minutes on every working day....
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Major depression
- Treatment resistance
- Age above 18 years
- Hamilton 17 item score above 13
- Unaltered pharmacological treatment in last 4 weeks
Exclusion
- Psychotic disorder
- Mental retardation
- Suicidality
- Earlier treatment with PEMF
- Abuse of alcohol or other substances
- Patient not able to come to appointed visits
- Antisocial, borderline or schizotypic personality disorder
- Women lactating or pregnant
- Unreliable contraception
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
March 1 2006
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
March 1 2009
Estimated Enrollment :
50 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00287703
Start Date
March 1 2006
End Date
March 1 2009
Last Update
May 29 2009
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Speciallægerne Falkoner Allé
Municipality of Frederiksberg, Denmark, 2000