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Enhancing Life Quality in Community-Dwelling Older Omanis by Telling Their Life Story

NCT06881914 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 75

Last updated 2025-03-24

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Summary

This study investigates whether sharing life stories and creating life-story books can enhance the quality of life and life satisfaction and reduce depression in older adults. The primary research question is:

Did the quality of life, life satisfaction, and levels of depression improve more for participants in the intervention group compared to those in the control group?

Participants will be divided into two groups:

* Intervention group: These participants will share life stories and create life-story books.
* Control group: These participants will not share life stories or create life-story books.

Conditions

  • Healthy Older Adults

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Intervention group:

There were 5 sessions for the intervention group. All sessions took place in the participant's home. The first 4th sessions involved participant sharing a particular time of their life event, such as childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and the current stage. Transcripts were prepared and compiled following the completion of the interviews. The participants will proofread their life-story book before sending it for printing. In the 5th session, they were given their life storybooks. A self-report questionnaire was used in every session to collect participants' quality of life, life satisfaction, and depression scores.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Sultan Qaboos University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Moon Fai Chan, PhD · Sultan Qaboos University, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, Muscat, Oman

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Max Age
90 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-10-01
Primary Completion
2024-11-30
Completion
2024-12-31

Countries

  • Oman

Study Locations

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