Efficacy Study of Autosuggestion for Quality of Life of Geriatric Patients (ESAQoGe)

University of Indonesia (UI)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Quality of Life for Geriatric Patients.

Treatments: Behavioral: Autosuggestion for 30 days

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01681056

U1111-1134-1994

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective is to analyze the efficacy of autosuggestion for geriatric patients's quality of life and its impact to psycho-neuro-endocrine-immune pathways. The primary outcome is quality of life.

The hypothesis of this study is that autosuggestion will increase geriatric patient's quality of life based on its impact to psycho-neuro-endocrine-immune pathways.

Full description

Geriatric patients diagnosed with multipathology after getting information and signing informed consent will be included in this trial. Autosuggestion was created by patients according to their preferences, modified by researcher to accomplish autosuggestion principles, recorded in a tape to be heard by walkman daily for 30 days. Intervention and control groups received usual standard medical therapy.

Baseline data were collected within one week after admission. Then the subject will be followed up for 30 days. Primary outcome was quality of life measured by COOP chart, analyze using on treatment analysis. Secondary outcomes were serum cortisol, interleukin-2, interleukin-6, IFN-ϒ (Interferon gamma), and N Acetyl Aspartat/ creatine ratio in limbic and paralimbic system by Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.

Enrollment: 51 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age: ≥ 60 years old with multipathology, inpatients
• Not in steroid therapy
• Could communicate (Karnofsky score: 40% or Zubrod/WHO score: 3)
• Cooperative
• Willing to go through all of the research steps.

Exclusion criteria

• Stroke
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Brain Tumour
• Using Pace maker

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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51 participants in 2 patient groups

Autosuggestion

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Autosuggestion for 30 days

Standard medical theraphy

No Intervention group