NCT01553669

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

The Effects of Reminiscence Therapy on Depression, Self Esteem, Life Satisfaction, and Loneliness of the Elderly in China

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Chinese Academy of Sciences · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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.

Detailed description

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. During each weekly session, the memories recalled focused on a different theme. Data collection will occur on screening (as for baseline or pre-test), after intervention immediately (as for post-test), and three months after the intervention (as for follow-up). And outcome measures use standardized instruments with demonstrated validity and reliability: Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) Rosenberg self-esteem scale (SES) Life Satisfaction Index A (LSI-A) Russell's UCLA Loneliness Scale

Conditions

• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-10-01
• Primary completion: 2012-09-01
• Completion: 2012-09-01
• First posted: 2012-03-14
• Last updated: 2012-05-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China