NCT07742579Not yet recruitingPhase 3
Online Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for People With Multiple Sclerosis With Mild-Moderate Depression
Online Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for People With Multiple Sclerosis With Mild-Moderate Depression: A Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Study
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 3 Aug 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study will use a waiting list randomized controlled trial design with a mixed-methods research approach, including both quantitative and qualitative methods. Randomization helps minimize research bias and controls for participant and contextual factors that might otherwise make interpretation of results challenging. We will recruit 152 people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) with any type of MS, who also have mild-moderate depression, aged 18 or greater, and able to understand spoken and written English. For the quantitative part, we will examine how much change in depression there is following mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), as well as whether participants attend the course and complete study measures or not, and how much participants complete MBCT home practices. We will also examine how much change there is in fatigue, sleep pain, quality of life, and anxiety. For the qualitative part of the study, we will use semi-structured interviews to explore participant experiences of online MBCT, how people used online MBCT, what worked, what didn't and why, how online MBCT impacted self-management of depression, and suggestions for improving the course to make it more relevant for PwMS with depression.
- Status (registry)
- Not yet recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 152 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 23 Jul 2026
- Start date
- Aug 2026
- Primary completion date
- Nov 2028
- Lead sponsor
- Robert Simpson
- Diseases
- Multiple sclerosis
- NCT number
- NCT07742579
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 3
- Planned participants: 152
- From Aug 2026 to the primary completion date, Nov 2028
- No sites listed in no country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Potentially life-threatening comorbidities (suicidal ideation (i.e., score of 2 or 3 on the BDI-Fast Screen suicidal ideation question), history of psychosis, terminal/life threatening inter-current illness), or those such conditions expected to significantly limit participation and adherence (pregnancy, cognitive impairment i.e. score \<26 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment - MoCA)
Other
- Receipt of MBCT in the past 2 years (completed at least 4/8 sessions).
Who the study is looking for
- Age \>/=18
- Neurologist confirmed MS diagnosis (McDonald criteria)
- Able to understand spoken and written English
- A score of 14-28 on the Beck Depression Inventory-II signifying mild-moderate depression
- Registered with a primary care provider (family physician or neurologist)
- Residing in Canada
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
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