Calmer Life: A Worry Reduction Program for Older Adults

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

32 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2009-04-30

Study Completion Date

2016-02-29

Brief Summary

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Calmer Life is a research study for older adults with anxiety. In the program participants will have the opportunity to learn skills that may help cope with anxiety. Participants have the option of including religion and spirituality into the skill. Skills participants can learn include: how to relax, how to change the way you think about things, and how to solve problems more effectively.

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Detailed Description

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Preliminary work in a related study (H-22763) suggests that a significant percentage of older patients think that incorporating religion and/or spirituality into counseling is important. Based on data from this study, available scholarly literature, and input from consultants, we have developed an initial version of Calmer Life that is sufficiently flexible to incorporate a range of religious and spiritual beliefs and coping skills based on each patient's unique values and beliefs. The manual for this treatment includes intervention components from evidence-based treatment for late-life anxiety (H-23798; H-15958), suggested strategies for incorporating religion or spirituality into the coping skills for anxiety and depression, and spiritually-based interventions (e.g., forgiveness, gratitude). Patients have a choice to include or not include religious or spiritually based components. The proposed project will begin to test this broad spiritually based CBT for older adults (Calmer Life) with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) with or without depression. Further modifications to the Calmer Life manual and in the treatment approach will be made based on patient, clinician, and consultant input.

Conditions

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Anxiety

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Calmer Life

Skills-based intervention to reduce anxiety and worry in adults age 50+.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Calmer Life

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Calmer Life is a modified version of an existing Cognitive Behavioral Treatment manual. Participants have the option of including religion and spirituality into coping skills taught as a way of treating anxiety with or without depression in older adults.

Interventions

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Calmer Life

Calmer Life is a modified version of an existing Cognitive Behavioral Treatment manual. Participants have the option of including religion and spirituality into coping skills taught as a way of treating anxiety with or without depression in older adults.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Age 50+;
* A principal or co-principal diagnosis of General Anxiety Disorder;
* Interest in receiving CBT for anxiety/depression with the option of including religion and spirituality;
* Must be English speaking