Emotion-Focused Mindfulness Therapy: A Feasibility Study for Late Life Anxiety
Anxiety
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Anxiety focused on measuring anxiety, aging and health, adults aged 65 and older, mindfulness based intervention, meditation
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Participants will be community dwelling older adults at least 65 years of age and with have no existing therapeutic alliance with the PI. Inclusion criteria will be a diagnosis or self-report of anxiety. The presence of symptoms of anxiety will be assessed using the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI) with a cut off score of 10 which indicates the presence of anxiety (Johnco et al., 2015). Participants will be willing to commit to an eight-week program.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Exclusion criteria will be beginning or stopping psychotropic medications within the previous six weeks and concurrent participation in any other mindfulness-based group during the study. Participants will not be excluded if they have prior experience with mindfulness. Further exclusion criteria will be a Telephone Montreal Cognitive Assessment (T-MoCA) cut off score of 19 which indicates the possibility of mild cognitive impairment.
Sites / Locations
- Queen's University
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Active Comparator
Intervention group
Wait listed control group
The intervention group will begin receiving the group intervention within one - two weeks of Time 1 assessment. This group will receive Time 2 assessments at the end of the group delivery. Time 3 assessments will be administered eight weeks after the completion of group delivery.
The wait listed control group will be assessed at Time 1, eight weeks before receiving the intervention. This group will receive Time 2 assessments at the beginning of their group delivery. This group will complete Time 3 assessments eight weeks after the completion of group delivery.