Reducing Late-Life Anxiety and Improving Functioning With Self-Directed Relaxation
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 40
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Change in Anxiety Symptoms
研究概览
简要总结
The PI developed a self-directed program to treat late-life anxiety called Breathing, Relaxation, and Education for Anxiety Treatment in the Home Environment (BREATHE). This program consists of weekly video lessons that participants watch on digital video disc (DVD) along with weekly telephone check-ins. In BREATHE participants will learn two behavioral interventions: diaphragmatic breathing and progressive muscle relaxation (PMR). The purpose of the study is to examine whether the self-directed BREATHE program is superior to a wait list control in reducing anxiety in older adults with anxiety disorders. For those assigned to wait list control, they will be offered opportunity to participate in BREATHE treatment after 8 weeks of wait list.
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
- •Participants have a diagnosis of an anxiety disorder, specifically, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, Social Anxiety Disorder or Anxiety Disorder Unspecified/Other Specified).
- •Participants speak English.
排除标准
- •Diagnosis of Dementia
- •Probable presence of significant cognitive impairment according to a brief cognitive screen
- •Serious mental illness (schizophrenia, psychosis, bipolar disorder)
结局指标
主要结局
Change in Anxiety Symptoms
时间窗: Change from baseline to 8 weeks
The Geriatric Anxiety Scale (GAS) is a 30-item measure of somatic, cognitive, and affective symptoms of anxiety. The first 25 items of the measure are used to compute the total score; the last 5 items provide information about the content of worries or fears. Total scores range from 0 to 75 with higher scores indicating worse anxiety. Participants provide severity ratings for items using on a four-point Likert-type scale.
Change in Activity Engagement
时间窗: Change from baseline to 8 weeks
The Activity Card Sort contains 80 photographs that depict the performance of instrumental activities, low-physical-demand leisure activities, high-physical-demand leisure activities, and social activities. This measure will be used to assess engagement in activities. The score reported is the lifestyle-adjusted function score. It represents the percentage of activities ever completed that are perceived to be easy. Higher scores indicate greater ease of activity completion/engagement.
次要结局
- Change in Somatic Symptoms(Change from baseline to 8 weeks)
- Change in Depressive Symptoms(Change from baseline to 8 weeks)
研究者
Christine Gould
Instructor (affiliated)
Stanford University