Savor-Aging: the Art of Savoring Positive Emotions

Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

Status: Completed

Conditions: Aging Well; Positive Affect

Treatments: Other: Savoring; Other: Positive Emotional Induction

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06842628

128/24

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is part of the larger project to promote positive aging (PNRR Age-IT Project) in the elderly through the amplification of positive experiences and emotions. This study aims to evaluate the feasibility and preliminary effects in terms of effectiveness of the "Savoring: the art of savoring positive emotions project", which is a self-help e-savoring training aimed at increasing psychological and subjective well-being in elderly participants. As secondary goals, this study aims to decrease depression and feelings of loneliness. An additional objective is to investigate user experience regarding the online protocol. A between-subjects design will be used.

Enrollment: 46 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age over 60
• Adequate understanding of the Italian language
• Possession of a technological tool to be able to access the Internet

Exclusion criteria

• Having a score below 26 on the MMSE that will be administered by telephone (Itel-MMSE) before division into the two groups. The Itel-MMSE scores will be converted into MMSE scores.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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46 participants in 2 patient groups

E-Savoring Group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will complete the online savoring training for 3 weeks, by doing 2 activities per week. The exercises will be focused on savoring past, present and future time.

Treatment:

Other: Savoring

Emotional Induction group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants will complete six emotional induction exercises.

Treatment:

Other: Positive Emotional Induction