Please select the arm or intervention descriptions that belong to the clinical trial below.
Title: A Stepwise Psychotherapy Intervention for Reducing Risk in Coronary Artery Disease - a Randomised Controlled Trial (SPIRR-CAD)
Brief Summary: In patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), depressive symptoms are frequent and highly relevant for quality of life, health behaviour, health care costs, and prognosis. The aim of the current study is to evaluate the effects of a psychotherapy intervention on symptoms of depression in patients with CAD. Therefore, depressed patients diagnosed with CAD will be randomised into a controlled intervention trial, comparing a stepwise psychotherapy intervention with usual cardiological care. The manualized psychotherapy intervention starts with three individual sessions offered on a weekly basis. Afterwards, symptoms of depression will be re-evaluated and, in case of persisting symptoms, patients receive an additional 25 sessions of psychodynamic group psychotherapy over a total period of one year. The psychodynamic approach was chosen in order to specifically take into account personality traits such as negative affectivity and social inhibition, the components of the Type D personality, which may explain why recent cognitive behavioural psychotherapy (CBT) trials produced only small effects in depressed CAD patients. The investigators expect that the intervention will reduce depressive symptoms as well as the prevalence of depressive disorders. It will also improve both behaviourally and physiologically mediated cardiovascular risk indicators, promote better quality of life, and reduce healthcare costs. Subgroup analyses will be performed in order to identify gender-specific treatment effects, effects on immunological stress reactivity, and genetic predictors of treatment success.


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A: Arm Label: Coping Skills Training; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Coping skills training | Arm Label: Educational Control; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Coping skills training | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Coping skills training; Assigned to Arm(s): Coping Skills Training, Educational Control
B: Arm Label: 1; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Psychotherapy, Other: Usual cardiological care | Arm Label: 2; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Information session, Other: Usual cardiological care | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Psychotherapy; Assigned to Arm(s): 1 | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Information session; Assigned to Arm(s): 2 | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Usual cardiological care; Assigned to Arm(s): 1, 2
C: Arm Label: Cognitive Behavior Therapy; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Other: Heart Failure Self-care Education | Arm Label: Usual Care; Type: OTHER; Interventions: Other: Heart Failure Self-care Education | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Cognitive Behavior Therapy; Assigned to Arm(s): Cognitive Behavior Therapy | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Heart Failure Self-care Education; Assigned to Arm(s): Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Usual Care
D: Arm Label: 1; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Cognitive behavior therapy | Arm Label: 2; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Supportive Stress Management | Arm Label: 3; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Cognitive behavior therapy; Assigned to Arm(s): 1 | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Supportive Stress Management; Assigned to Arm(s): 2

Answer: B