The Effect of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Education to Elderly Care Students on Outcome Measures

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; Ageism
• Interventions: Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

• Registration Number: NCT05232448
• Lead Sponsor: Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University

Brief Summary

The aim of this study, to examine the effects of cognitive behavioral therapy education to elderly care students on ageism, attitudes towards the elderly, empathy and body image.

Detailed Description

Students in the control group will continue their normal education. The students in the intervention group will be given training on ageism, elderly attitude, empathy and body image in the cognitive therapy training, which will be given by a psychological counselor who is an expert in the field and will last for a total of 1 month in four modules.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-01-03
• Study First Submitted: 2022-01-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-01-31
• Study First Posted: 2022-02-09
• Primary Completion: 2022-06-01
• Study Completion: 2022-10-31
• Status Verified: 2023-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-02-01
• Last Update Posted: 2023-02-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 53

Inclusion Criteria

• Students who do not have hearing, speech and psychiatric problems that prevent communication
• Students who volunteered to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria

• Students who do not want to be involved in the study

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention Group	Cognitive Behavioral Therapy	Data collection forms will be applied to the students in the intervention group first. Afterwards, cognitive-behavioral therapy training will be implemented as four modules, lasting 1 month in total.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Kogan Attitudes Toward Old People Scale	Change from Baseline Kogan Score at 1 month	The scale measures the attitudes of individuals towards the elderly. An increase in the total score indicates that the individual has a positive attitude towards the elderly. 34 is the lowest score, and 204 is the highest score obtained from the scale. A high score obtained from the scale indicates a positive attitude towards older people.
The Cognitive Affective and Somatic Empathy Scales (CASES) for Children	Change from Baseline CASES Score at 1 month	The scale was developed to evaluate the empathy levels of children and adolescents.The total score for thirty items ranges from 0 to 60, and it is thought that the higher the score, the higher the tendency to empathize.
Ageism Attitude Scale	Change from Baseline Ageism Attitude Scale at 1 month	It is a scale with three sub-dimensions: limiting the life of the elderly, positive discrimination and negative discrimination attitudes towards the elderly. A high score indicates a positive attitude. The highest possible score from the survey was 190 and the lowest was 38 according to this scoring scale.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University Vocational School of Health Services; 🇹🇷 Muğla, Köyceğiz, Turkey