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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Ageism

NCT04319393 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 110

Last updated 2020-03-24

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Summary

Background: Healthcare settings must be a patient-friendly environment for the investigator's older adults who are in an imperative need for compassionate healthcare when approaching their later life. However, older adults until this moment are experiencing age discriminative acts by nurses who are supposed to act in favor of their patients. Ageism is not always a result of either negative attitudes or misconceptions toward older adults, but to the innate fear of death where nurses perceive older adults as a powerful reminder of death. Although cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is well known for targeting psychological distresses, to date, no research has investigated its effectiveness in relieving nurses' death anxiety and ageism. This study examined the effectiveness of CBT to relieve nurses' death anxiety and ageism toward older adults.

Methods: A randomized controlled trial was conducted during August 2019 in the university hospital. A total of 110 nurses selected through proportional stratified sampling and randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups. The intervention consisted of six two-hour training sessions delivered in five modules with the integration of different CBT exercises. The effect of CBT was assessed on measures of a series of validated questionnaires of study variables before and after the training sessions.

Conditions

  • Ageism

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

The CBT intervention was carried out through six two-hour sessions over a month. The intervention group was divided into three subgroups of 18 to 19 nurses each. It was required for each subgroup to attend two CBT sessions to complete the intervention. The CB therapist followed the same structure in the delivery of each CBT session. The CBT session was delivered in five modules: generating objectives and outcomes, enhancing self-esteem and interpersonal relationships, changing beliefs regarding symbolic mortality, and changing attitudes regarding death anxiety. The first session began with highlighting the objectives of the CBT. Then, a detailed presentation of the intervention modules was provided to the nurses with integration of CBT exercises, including cognitive restructuring, graded exposure, mindfulness meditation, interpersonal skills training, and activity scheduling

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Jordan University of Science and Technology

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mohammad Rababa, PhD · Jordan University of Science and Technology

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
22 Years
Max Age
45 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-01-01
Primary Completion
2019-09-01
Completion
2019-11-01

Countries

  • Jordan

Study Locations

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