NCT05637177

Preventive Intervention to Promote Healthy Ageing

Support of Healthy Ageing: Using Educational and Psychosocial In-terventions to Maintain Mental Health, for Prevention and Timely Diagnosis of Depression, Anxiety, and Cognitive Disorders of Older Adults in a Community

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Ostrava · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of the project is the support of healthy ageing of older adults in acommunity. Efficient educational and psychosocial intervention will besuggested and verified to prevent anxiety, depression, and cognitivedisorders of selected older adults, to im-prove their self-esteem,meaningfulness of life, sense of coherence, quality of life, and attitudes toold age. Correlations among anxiety, depression, cognitive functions, andcertain psychosocial aspects will be analyzed.

Detailed description

The main objective of the project is to determine the efficiency ofeducational pro-grams and psychosocial interventions to maintain mentalhealth, to prevent and timely diagnose any depression, anxieties, andcognitive disorders in older adults living in a community. Furthermore, theaim is to ascertain the incidence of depression, anxiety, and cognitivedisorders in these older adults and its correlation to the assessment of lifemeaningfulness, self-respect, attitudes to old age and ageing, and the levelof social support. An intervention study will be carried out. A preventionprogram will be for-mulated based on the individual needs of older adults asidentified in the focus groups. Selected interventions will be performed in apresent form (face to face) as well as distance form (e-Health) and will runat least for 6 months. The assessment of anxiety, depression, cognitivefunctions, and other psychosocial aspects will be done before theinterventions start, when they finish, and 3 months after that. Based on-quantitative analysis, there will be evaluated the efficiency of the providedinterven-tion with respect to depression, anxiety, cognitive function, andpsychosocial aspects (attitudes to old age, self-esteem, the sense ofcoherence, quality of life, level of social support). Older adults in thecentrum for prevention and support healthy ageing in the community will beincluded in the research sample. Based on the findings, recommen-dations will be formulated regarding the selected interventions used in communi-tycare.

Conditions

• Preventive Intervention

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Anging Wisely	The program includes 11 meetings of two hours in a group of up to eight people. The sessions are held weekly. Each lesson is given a homework assignment. A total of 10 groups will take place.
BEHAVIORAL	Music therapy	Music therapy sessions are held once a week for 60 minutes for 12 weeks. The maximum number of participants per group is 12. A total of 10 groups will be implemented.
BEHAVIORAL	Reminiscence therapy	Reminiscence therapy sessions are held once a week for 60 minutes for 12 weeks. The maximum number of participants per group is 10. A total of 5 groups will be implemented.
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive training	Intervention "cognitive training" will take place once a week for 45 minutes for 20 weeks. Seniors can choose from two options: 1. group training full-time or home training (online) using the comprehensive training program MENTEM.
BEHAVIORAL	Educational activities	Interventions in educational activities will run for one academic year. In total, seniors will attend 16 lectures in each educational module. The lectures will run 1 x 14 days for 90 minutes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-01-01
• Primary completion: 2024-06-30
• Completion: 2024-12-31
• First posted: 2022-12-05
• Last updated: 2025-02-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Czechia