Awareness, Courage, and Love Group Psychotherapy for Geriatric Psychiatry Outpatients
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 进行中（未招募）
- 入组人数
- 50
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale
研究概览
简要总结
Loneliness is a key predictor of mortality in older adults, and is a prominent risk factor for mental and physical illness in older adulthood. The goal of this study is to determine the feasibility and acceptability of a group loneliness intervention in geriatric psychiatry outpatients. This type of group loneliness intervention is based on functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP), called Awareness, Courage, and Love (ACL) Groups. The objective of this clinical trial is to adapt, implement, and evaluate the ACL group for outpatients.
详细描述
The objective of this clinical trial is to adapt, implement, and evaluate a type of loneliness group intervention called Awareness, Courage, and Love Groups for older adult outpatients diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder. The following research questions will be answered: (a) Are ACL groups with geriatric psychiatry outpatients feasible and acceptable? (b) Do such ACL groups demonstrate preliminary efficacy?
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 60 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Older adults with psychiatric disorder(s)
排除标准
- •Individuals who are disoriented to person, delirious, unable to tolerate or participate meaningfully in the group, or otherwise unable to provide consent to research and psychotherapy
- •Unable to speak English
研究组 & 干预措施
Treatment: Group psychotherapy
Treatment group receiving psychotherapy
干预措施: Awareness, Courage, and Love Group Psychotherapy (Behavioral)
Waitlist
Waitlist control
结局指标
主要结局
De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale
时间窗: Up to 2 months
Brief measure of loneliness. The minimum value is 0, the maximum value is 11, and higher scores indicate a worse outcome.
Attendance and attrition (defined as the number of participants that withdraw (numerator)/number of participants randomised (denominator))
时间窗: Up to 2 months
Measure of feasibility. Captured across 8 sessions, comparing pre to post.
Quantitative Program Satisfaction
时间窗: Up to 2 months
Brief measure of program satisfaction. The minimum value is 0, the maximum value is 16, and higher scores indicate a better outcome.
UCLA Loneliness Scale (Neto)
时间窗: Up to 2 months
Brief measure of loneliness. The minimum value is 6, the maximum value is 24, and higher scores indicate a worse outcome.
次要结局
- Sacred Moment Qualities(Up to 2 months)
- Cantril Self-Anchoring Striving Scale(Up to 2 months)
- Adaptation of Inclusion of Other in Self Scale(Up to 2 months)
- Relational Health Indices(Up to 2 months)