Collaborative Care for Anxiety and Depression in Epilepsy
Recruiting · NCT05559749 · Interventional (participants receive a specific treatment) · Lead sponsor: Wake Forest University Health Sciences
View the official record on ClinicalTrials.gov →Interventions studied
collaborative careusual neurology care
What this trial is about
This is a randomized effectiveness/implementation trial comparing a 24-week neurology-based collaborative care intervention to usual neurology care among 60 adults with epilepsy.
Who can take part
Age range
18 Years and older
Sex
All (male and female)
Healthy volunteers
No - a diagnosis or condition is required
Phase
Not applicable (e.g. observational or device study)
Study type
Interventional (participants receive a specific treatment)
Inclusion criteria
- Provision of signed and dated Informed Consent Form
- Stated willingness to comply with all study procedures
- Males and Females; Age \>= 18 years
- \* Diagnosis of epilepsy: Epilepsy diagnosis based on neurology clinician impression or EEG findings
- Anxiety or Depression symptoms
- Receiving clinical neurological care at Atrium Health
Exclusion criteria
- Current participation in another treatment of intervention study
- Cognitive limitations precluding completion of Anxiety and Depression self-report instruments on paper, electronically, or by interview
- Comorbid medical condition with life expectancy less than 6 months
- Not a good candidate for collaborative care due to:
- Active ongoing treatment by a psychiatrist
- Active suicidal ideation
- History of past suicide attempt and:
- receiving ongoing psychotherapy OR
- has seen a psychiatrist in the past year
- History of suicide attempt in the past year and:
- currently prescribed 2 or more psychotropic medications for psychiatric indication (not merely as a hypnotic) AND not felt to be a good candidate for collaborative care based on the judgement of the investigators
- Unstable drug or alcohol abuse
- For the third Aim (sustainability supplement: intervention only care delivery exploratory study supplement) - the Participants meeting the following criteria may participate
- individuals who meet the above INC-EXC criteria and have completed the Control Arm of a collaborative care research study - NCT05559749 - NCT05353452 or
- individuals who meet the above INC-EXC criteria except rather than having a diagnosis of Epilepsy; they have a diagnosis of functional neurological disorder with seizures
Where it is running
1 location listed across 1 US state.
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences - Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States