Awareness, Courage, and Love Group Psychotherapy for Geriatric Psychiatry Outpatients
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Awareness, Courage, and Love Group Psychotherapy
- Conditions
- Loneliness
- Sponsor
- London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's
- Enrollment
- 50
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale
- Status
- Active, not recruiting
- Last Updated
- 3 months ago
Overview
Brief Summary
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.
Detailed Description
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?
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Older adults with psychiatric disorder(s)
Exclusion Criteria
- •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
Arms & Interventions
Treatment: Group psychotherapy
Treatment group receiving psychotherapy
Intervention: Awareness, Courage, and Love Group Psychotherapy
Waitlist
Waitlist control
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale
Time Frame: 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))
Time Frame: Up to 2 months
Measure of feasibility. Captured across 8 sessions, comparing pre to post.
Quantitative Program Satisfaction
Time Frame: 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)
Time Frame: 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.
Secondary Outcomes
- 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)