NCT06884033

Cinematherapy for Women With Depression and Anxiety

GINEMOTION: Cinematherapy for Women With Depression and Anxiety

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Group cinematherapy program in reducing depressive and anxiety symptoms in women diagnosed with Depressive Disorders and Anxiety Disorders.

Detailed description

Cinematherapy is a creative therapeutic intervention in which a trained professional prescribes the patient to watch a film and uses the characters and themes as metaphors to promote self-exploration and change. The effectiveness of cinematherapy as a therapeutic technique has been demonstrated through its effectiveness in improving participants' self-esteem, emotional expression and understanding, and interpersonal relationships, and in reducing depressive and anxious symptoms.The cinematherapy intervention involves a targeted selection of film content and activities designed to improve the patients' mental condition.The study includes eight meetings on a monthly basis (programming of eight films lasting approximately two hours and subsequent discussion on the contents of the film shown).

Conditions

• Depression Anxiety Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Cinematherapy	Cinematherapy, also known as cinema therapy and movie therapy, involves therapist-directed viewing of movies for specific therapeutic purposes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-01-15
• Primary completion: 2025-07-15
• Completion: 2025-07-15
• First posted: 2025-03-19
• Last updated: 2025-08-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy