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NCT03092050
Group Therapy for Depressed Dementia Caregivers
NA trial testing Guided Imagery and Mindfulness in Depression in 46 participants. Completed in 30 June 2019.
30 June 2019
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Massachusetts General Hospital |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | single |
| Primary purpose | treatment |
| Enrollment | 46 |
| Start date | 1 March 2017 |
| Primary completion | 30 June 2019 |
| Estimated completion | 30 June 2019 |
| Sites | 1 location across United States |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Guided Imagery and Mindfulness
- Facilitated Discussion
Conditions studied
- Depression — all drugs for Depression →
Sponsor
Massachusetts General Hospital
Who can join
45 and older, any sex, with Depression. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
Depression in family caregivers of relatives with Alzheimer's Disorder and related dementias is a serious public health problem. This is a randomized, controlled, single-blind pilot clinical trial of depressed caregivers, to determine the efficacy and mechanisms of group therapy for depressed dementia caregivers.
Publications & conference data
3 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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Mindfulness-based stress reduction for family carers of people with dementia.
Liu Z, Sun YY, Zhong BL. · · 2018 · cited 27× · PMID 30106471 · DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd012791.pub2 -
Four-Week Mentalizing Imagery Therapy for Family Dementia Caregivers: A Randomized Controlled Trial with Neural Circuit Changes.
Jain FA, Chernyak SV, Nickerson LD, Morgan S, et al · · 2022 · cited 20× · PMID 35287133 · DOI 10.1159/000521950 -
Family dementia caregivers with suicidal ideation improve with mentalizing imagery therapy: Results from a pilot study.
Madarasmi S, Gutierrez-Ramirez P, Barsoum N, Banerjee S, et al · · 2024 · cited 6× · PMID 38737194 · DOI 10.1016/j.jadr.2024.100721
Verify or expand the search:
- PubMed search for NCT03092050
- Europe PMC full search
- ASCO Meeting Library
- ESMO Meeting Library
- bioRxiv preprints
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03092050 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
- Drug + disease cross-links: matched in real time against Drug Landscape's normalised drug + company + condition tables
- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Massachusetts General Hospital
- Last refreshed: 6 September 2022
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