ACT-based Intervention Enhanced With VR for Older Adults With Anxiety Symptoms
NCT07687420 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60
Last updated 2026-07-07
Summary
The goal of this pilot RCT is to develop, implement and evaluate an Intervention Program based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy using virtual reality as one of the components, in a sample of individuals aged 65 or older with anxiety symptoms enrolled in Portuguese day centers, with the aim of evaluating the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary evidence of efficacy of the intervention program and exploring the attitudes, behaviors and perceived barriers on the part of the participants towards the intervention.
Conditions
- Anxious Symptoms
Interventions
- BEHAVIORAL
-
Intervention program based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
An intervention program based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, consisting of 12 group sessions, with virtual reality being used in selected sessions.
Sponsors & Collaborators
-
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
collaborator OTHER -
Grupo Lusófona
lead OTHER
Study Design
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Purpose
- TREATMENT
- Masking
- SINGLE
- Model
- PARALLEL
Eligibility
- Min Age
- 65 Years
- Sex
- ALL
- Healthy Volunteers
- No
Timeline & Regulatory
- Start
- 2026-09-30
- Primary Completion
- 2027-03-31
- Completion
- 2027-03-31
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