There are currently 251 active clinical trials seeking participants for Depression research studies. The states with the highest number of trials for Depression participants are California, New York, Florida and Pennsylvania.
Developing Resilience and Anxiety Management Through the Arts
Recruiting
The DRAMA Study examines the degree to which the arts can help to address stress, anxiety, and sad mood in children and adolescents. The researchers will pair theatrical improvisation exercises with cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques versus improvisation exercises alone versus a social craft group on reducing elevated levels of anxiety and depression.
Gender:
ALL
Ages:
Between 8 years and 17 years
Trial Updated:
06/13/2025
Locations: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
Conditions: Anxiety, Depression, Mood
Positive Processes and Transition to Health - Single-Session (PATH-SS)
Recruiting
The goal of this clinical trial is to test a brief, new psychotherapy (called Positive Processes and Transition to Health - Single Session, or PATH-SS) that aims to provide relief for people who are suffering after experiencing a sexual assault. This research will explore whether this new psychotherapy reduces sexual assault related distress, including posttraumatic stress and depression symptoms. The main questions it aims to answer are: Does PATH-SS leads to improvements in PTSD and depressio... Read More
Gender:
ALL
Ages:
Between 18 years and 65 years
Trial Updated:
03/22/2025
Locations: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
Conditions: PTSD, Depression
TEAM-Red, a Remotely Delivered Self-management Program for Depressed Black Women at Risk for Hypertension
Recruiting
The proposed project is a 24-week prospective randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluating the effects of TargEted MAnageMent Intervention (TEAM, N=41) vs. enhanced waitlist (eWL, N=41) control in young (\<50 years) African American women who are depressed or suffering from stress, and at risk for hypertension.
Gender:
FEMALE
Ages:
Between 18 years and 49 years
Trial Updated:
10/04/2024
Locations: University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
Conditions: Depression
Determining Optimal Treatment Sequences in Anxious Depression (DOTS-AD)
Recruiting
Acute, double-blind, adaptively randomized treatment with duloxetine or escitalopram, followed by double-blind, randomized adjunctive treatment with clonazepam or pregabalin for persistent symptoms.
Gender:
ALL
Ages:
Between 18 years and 50 years
Trial Updated:
08/28/2024
Locations: University of Cincinnati, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience, Cincinnati, Ohio
Conditions: Anxious Depression, Depression
CAMPUS Expanded "Classification and Assessment of Mental Health Performance Using Semantics Expanded"
Recruiting
Open enrollment study to collect data for the optimization of machine learning models for use in an app for the early detection of mental health and suicidal risk.
Gender:
ALL
Ages:
Between 8 years and 75 years
Trial Updated:
02/05/2024
Locations: Clarigent Health, Mason, Ohio
Conditions: Suicide, Suicidal, Suicide, Attempted, Suicidal Ideation, Depression, Anxiety, Aggression, Trauma, Psychological
Characterization and Treatment of Adolescent Depression
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This research study seeks to find causes and treatments of depression in teenagers. The study goals are to increase our knowledge of treatments for depression and understand how the brain changes when teenagers have depression. The study will also compare teenagers with depression to those without mental health diagnoses. This outpatient study is recruiting participants ages 11-17 who are depressed. They must have a pediatrician or other medical provider, be medically healthy, and able to perfo... Read More
Gender:
ALL
Ages:
Between 11 years and 25 years
Trial Updated:
07/16/2025
Locations: National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland
Conditions: Depression
A Study to Assess Change in Disease Activity and Adverse Events (AEs) With Cariprazine in the Treatment of Depressive Episodes in Pediatric Participants Participants (10 to 17 Years of Age) With Bipolar I Disorder.
Recruiting
Bipolar disorder is a severe chronic mood disorder that affects up to 4% of the adult population and 1.8% of the pediatric population in the United States. The treatment of the depressive episodes of bipolar disorder in the pediatric population has not been as widely studied as the treatment of depressive episodes in bipolar disorder in adults, therefore pharmacotherapeutic options are limited. Given the change in disease state and safety demonstrated in adults with depressive episodes associate... Read More
Gender:
ALL
Ages:
Between 10 years and 17 years
Trial Updated:
07/14/2025
Locations: Pillar Clinical Research /ID# 226504, Bentonville, Arkansas +70 locations
Conditions: Depression, Bipolar I Disorder
RCT for Latina Mental Health Using Web-Based Apps
Recruiting
This study compares a choice-driven, interactive, evidence-informed storytelling web-based app intervention with links to resources and treatment (Tx) recommendations (made by a character via her blog) and Tx locator, to a web-based app with links to publicly available informational internet videos, MH resources, and a treatment locator for at least moderately anxious/depressed untreated English and Spanish speaking Latinas to determine if a story-based, character-driven approach is more effecti... Read More
Gender:
FEMALE
Ages:
18 years and above
Trial Updated:
07/12/2025
Locations: UCLA, Los Angeles, California
Conditions: Mental Health, Anxiety, Depression, Well-Being, Psychological
A Computerized Depression Intervention in Veterans
Recruiting
Depressive symptoms are common among Veterans and associated with significant impairment. Timely intervention has the potential to improve mental health outcomes and restore functioning. Interventions delivered through the internet can be completed remotely at any time, and thus minimize burden on Veterans, however the research examining their utility in Veterans is limited. This proposed project will examine Deprexis, a self-guided internet-delivered intervention, which targets depressive sympt... Read More
Gender:
ALL
Ages:
18 years and above
Trial Updated:
07/11/2025
Locations: Central Texas Veterans Health Care System Waco VA Medical Center, Waco, TX, Waco, Texas
Conditions: Depression
Digital Support for Mental Health Intervention in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Recruiting
This is a small, exploratory study that will investigate using an artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR), digital wellness application (app) to deliver a mental health support session in outpatient and hospitalized patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and co-existing symptoms of mild to moderate anxiety or depression. The purpose of this study is to explore if a mental health support session using the app is feasible, safe, and acceptable to IBD patients and whether it... Read More
Gender:
ALL
Ages:
18 years and above
Trial Updated:
07/11/2025
Locations: University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Conditions: Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Anxiety, Depression, Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn Disease
Neurobiology of Suicide
Recruiting
Background: There are no good treatments for people considering suicide. Researchers want to study suicide with questions, blood tests, brain imaging, and sleep studies. They hope to better understand suicide, so they can help suicidal people. Objective: To understand what happens in the brain when someone has thought about or attempted suicide. Eligibility: Group 1: Adults ages 18 70 who have thought about or attempted suicide recently Group 2: Adults ages 18 70 who have thought about or... Read More
Gender:
ALL
Ages:
Between 18 years and 70 years
Trial Updated:
07/09/2025
Locations: National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland
Conditions: Healthy Volunteers, Depression
Neural-Derived Plasma Exosomal MicroRNAs As Promising Novel Biomarkers for Suicidality and Treatment Outcome in Adolescents
Recruiting
This study is dedicated to help identify biomarkers for depression and suicide. The purpose of the study is to better understand these links to improve medical and psychiatric care in the future. This research is also to test the effects of standard treatment of depression on improvement in depressive and suicidal behavior and on biomarkers (e.g. miRNA) for these disorders.
Gender:
ALL
Ages:
Between 10 years and 24 years
Trial Updated:
07/08/2025
Locations: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama +1 locations
Conditions: Major Depressive Disorder, Suicidal Ideas, Suicide, Attempted, MDD, Depression, Depression, Teen, Depression and Suicide, Depression in Adolescence, Suicide