Purpose of the edupression.com® system
The purpose of edupression.com® is based on that of the two medical products it contains:
The online-based psychoeducation for unipolar depressive patients developed by edupression.com® is based on the goal-oriented and structured communication of preventive and disease-relevant information to patients with unipolar depression, combined with psychotherapeutic effective factors, most of which originate from elements of cognitive behavioural therapy, with the aim of
- the reduction of depressive symptoms,
- improving the course of illness in depressed patients,
- improving the functional level of depressed patients,
- the improvement of treatment adherence,
- improvement in the remission rates of depressed patients,
- reducing the risk of relapse in mild to moderately ill, depressed patients,
- preventive effects in people with low symptom severity.
The edupression.com® mood chart is used for monitoring
- of depression symptoms,
- Mood instability,
- Residual symptoms of unipolar depressive patients,
- as well as in the presence of depressive “sub-threshold symptoms”,
which gives the patient visual feedback on the course of the disease and response to treatment.
In addition, the mood chart serves to monitor newly developing depressive symptoms in the context of a relapse and thus supports the early detection of a recurrence or relapse by the patient.
In addition, the edupression.com® mood chart helps the patient to recognise temporal relationships between depressive symptoms and factors that may have a positive or negative influence on the course of the illness or the response to therapy. In this way, the edupression.com® mood chart supports desired behavioural changes by the patient.