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Reminiscence Therapy on Depression, Self Esteem, Life Satisfaction, and Loneliness of the Elderly

NCT01553669 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2012-05-15

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Summary

The primary hypothesis is, comparing with the control group, reminiscence therapy is significantly and clinically effective to improve the experiment group's depressive symptoms after six weeks therapy, and the efficacy can be maintained on the three months follow-up.

The secondary hypothesis is, comparing with the control group, reminiscence therapy significantly reduce the loneliness and increase the self-esteem and life satisfaction of the experiment group.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

reminiscence therapy

The subjects who are arranged to the experiment group will be intervened using the reminiscence therapy manual proposed by Watt and Cappeliez (2000). According to the manual, the group consisted of six weekly sessions of 90 min each. There will be about four people in each subgroup. During each weekly session, the memories recalled focused on a different theme.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Principal Investigators

  • Juan Li, PhD · Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Ctr Ageing Psychol, Key Lab Mental Hlth

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-10-31
Primary Completion
2012-09-30
Completion
2012-09-30

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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