NCT06524206

An Awareness, Courage, and Love Intervention to Help Chinese Older Adults in the Post-pandemic Era

An Awareness, Courage, and Love Intervention to Help Chinese Older Adults in the Post-pandemic Era: A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 70 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Caritas Institute of Higher Education · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to explore the potential effectiveness of a one-session online Awareness, Courage, and Love intervention for reducing loneliness, depression and anxiety symptoms, and enhancing social connectedness and subjective well-being among older adults. the study also aims to estimate the effect sizes of the Awareness, Courage, and Love intervention.

Detailed description

The recruitment process will commence with referrals from local community organizations. Eligible individuals will be provided with detailed information about the study, and informed consent will be obtained from those willing to participate. After the confirmation of participant recruitment, a randomization process will be implemented to ensure the equitable distribution of participants between the intervention and waitlist control groups. An independent researcher will generate computer-generated random codes for group assignment, and these codes will be securely sealed in opaque envelopes. The envelopes will be sequentially numbered, and the randomization process will remain blinded throughout to prevent bias. Participants will be notified via email or text for the details of the condition they are assigned, and their willingness to engage in both the intervention and data collection will be confirmed.

Conditions

• Loneliness
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Social Connectedness
• Subjective Well-being
• Psychological Intervention
• Older Adults

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	The Awareness, Courage and Love Intervention	Derived from Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP), the Awareness, Courage, and Love (ACL) Intervention brings the FAP principles to a broader population. In the ACL model, awareness is defined as engaging in mindful awareness of one's self (feelings, needs, values), other individuals, and the context in which interactions are taking place. Courage is defined as engaging in authentic, vulnerable self-disclosures (e.g. struggles, appreciation), and asking for what one wants and needs. Love is defined as providing empathically accurate responsiveness, including provision of safety, validation, and giving the other person what they have asked for when possible.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-08-01
• Primary completion: 2025-02-01
• Completion: 2025-03-01
• First posted: 2024-07-29
• Last updated: 2024-07-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong