Conditions: Major Depressive Disorder
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 528
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to find out if 60 mg of duloxetine given once a day by mouth for 8 weeks to patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder, who also report associated painful physical symptoms, is better than placebo when treating depression and its associated painful symptoms.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: None arm 2: None

Interventions: intervention 1: Duloxetine intervention 2: Placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Participants received 30 mg duloxetine once daily (QD) by mouth (po) for 1 week followed by 60 mg QD, po for 7 weeks. intervention 2: Participants received placebo QD, po for 8 weeks.

Protocol document: