Comparison of Treatment Effect of Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine on Depression in China and America

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2014-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Comparison of different assessment methods to evaluate the treatment efficacy of Chinese medicine on minor and mild depression.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Guang'anmen Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences
• Collaborators: California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute; Massachusetts General Hospital

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• According with ICD-10 criteria of depression;

• Age 16-70;

• Antidepressant and other Psychiatric drugs have not been had two weeks before the trial, or the drugs above had been used but have cleaning period of two weeks;

• Level of education is higher than junior middle school;

• Course of disease is more than two weeks;

• Volunteer to join and Signed the informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnancy or lactation;

• Severe depression or have serious suicidal tendencies

• long distance or other causes who can not adherence to treatment