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Internet-based Self-help After Spousal Bereavement or Divorce

NCT02900534 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 110

Last updated 2018-10-22

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of an internet-based self-help intervention for older adults with prolonged grief symptoms after spousal bereavement or separation/divorce. The study design is a randomized trial with a waiting control condition of 12 weeks and a follow-up after 6 months. The investigators will test the following main hypotheses:

1. The intervention group shows a significant decrease in grief symptoms, psychological distress, depression symptoms and embitterment, and a significant increase in life satisfaction, as well as session related outcomes from baseline to 12 weeks post intervention assessment.
2. The effects in the intervention group are larger than the effects in the waiting control group.
3. These effects are stable from the post measure at 12 weeks to the 6-month follow-up.

Conditions

  • Prolonged Grief Symptoms

Interventions

OTHER

Internet-based self-help

10 internet-based self-help sessions plus one supportive email a week with a cognitive-behavioural background

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Bern

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hans J Znoj, Professor · University of Bern, Switzerland

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-05-31
Primary Completion
2018-05-06
Completion
2018-05-06

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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