The effectiveness of Looking for meaning, a life-review course for elderly with depressive symptoms. A randomized controlled trial.
Completed
- Conditions
- slight to moderate depressive symptoms
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON28537
- Lead Sponsor
- Trimbos-institute Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction
- Brief Summary
/A
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 360
Inclusion Criteria
Elderly people above the age of 55 with slight to moderate depressive symptoms.
Exclusion Criteria
1. People with severe depressive symptoms and a CES-D score higher than 24;
2. The absence of depressive symptoms, a score lower than 5 on the CES-D;
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Depressive symptoms (Centre of Epidemiological Studies-Depression scale, CES-D, Bouma, Ranchor, Sanderman and van Sonderen 1995);<br /><br>2. Well-being (Well-being Scale, Ryff and Keyes, 1995);<br /><br>3. Perceived meaning (SELE Scale, Dittmann-Kohli and Westerhof 1997);<br /><br>4. Quality of life (EuroQol Group 1990).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Mastery (Pearlin Mastery Scale, Pearlin and Schooler 1978);<br /><br>2. Social support (van Sonderen et al. 1989);<br /><br>3. Personality structure (NEO-FFI);<br /><br>4. Demographic variables and important life events.