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

NCT06881914 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: MREC#2028
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 75
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief 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

Keywords

Depression; Life satifaction; Quality of life; Older adults

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change from baseline in the depression scores (GDS-15) at 8 weeks

  The Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15), Arabic version, was used to collect depression scores. It comprises 15 closed-ended questions regarding how the elderly participants felt during the previous week. Zero indicates no depressive symptoms, and 15 indicates severe depressive symptoms.

  From enrollment to the end of intervention at 8 weeks.

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Change from baseline in the life satisfaction score at 8 weeks

  From enrollment to the end of treatment at 8 weeks

• Change from baseline in the quality of life score at 8 weeks

  From enrollment to the end of treatment at 8 weeks.

Study Arms (2)

Control

NO INTERVENTION

Five sessions took place at the participants' homes. A self-report questionnaire was used in every session to collect participants' quality of life, life satisfaction, and depression scores.

Life-story review

EXPERIMENTAL

The life-story review intervention consisted of five sessions, during which participants shared their life experiences/stories and compiled them into a life-story book. In each session, a self-report questionnaire was administered to assess participants' quality of life, life satisfaction, and levels of depression.

Behavioral: Intervention group:

Interventions

Intervention group: BEHAVIORAL

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.

Life-story review

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 60 Years - 90 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• aged 60-90;
• depressive symptoms score between 5 and 10;
• able to sign the consent form;
• able to speak Arabic or English;
• able to communicate without the need for a hearing aid.

You may not qualify if:

• using hypnotics, sedatives, antidepressants, anticholinergics, antihistamines, tranquilizers, or melatonin for sleep;
• having a medical diagnosis of Parkinson's, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, or a serious mental problem;
• Participants assigned to the intervention group who did not want to be audio recorded.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Sultan Qaboos University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Sultan Qaboos University Hospital

Muscat, Muḩāfaz̧at Masqaţ, 123, Oman

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Depression

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior

Study Officials

• Moon Fai Chan, PhD

  Sultan Qaboos University, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, Muscat, Oman

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Associate Professor

Model Details: Intervention group: There were 5 sessions for the intervention group. All sessions took place in the participant's home. In the first 4 sessions, the participant was asked to share their childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and current stage. Transcripts were prepared and compiled following the completion of the interviews. Before printing, participants were asked to add their selected pictures to the life-story book. In the 5th session, they received their life story-story books. A self-report questionnaire was used in every session to collect participants' quality of life, life satisfaction, and depression scores. Control group: The control group had 5 sessions, and participants' quality of life, life satisfaction, and depression scores were collected at each interview only.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 7, 2025
• First Posted: March 18, 2025
• Study Start: October 1, 2021
• Primary Completion: November 30, 2024
• Study Completion: December 31, 2024
• Last Updated: March 24, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

OM (1)