None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
To determine if there is a difference when providing information about seeking management for depression using a narrative documentary Entertainment-Education (EE) approach compared to an instructional EE approach, on older adults knowledge and motivation levels. We hypothesise that there will be a greater knowledge uptake and increased motivation levels to seek assistance for managing depression in the group who view the narrative video compared to those who view the didactic video.
Interventions
Participants (older adults in a hospital setting) will watch a documentary video that is approx. 10mins in length about three older people's experiences with depression and anxiety, including what it is, common signs and symptoms, reasons why people experience these and strategies to manage/prevent these feelings. The key outcomes will be motivation to seek assistance from a health professional to manage symptoms of depression following discharge from hospital, and knowledge of available treatme
Participants (older adults in a hospital setting) will watch a documentary video that is approx. 10mins in length about three older people's experiences with depression and anxiety, including what it is, common signs and symptoms, reasons why people experience these and strategies to manage/prevent these feelings. The key outcomes will be motivation to seek assistance from a health professional to manage symptoms of depression following discharge from hospital, and knowledge of available treatment options. The research design will be a Solomon randomised controlled trial. In this design only half of the participants in each group receive the pre-intervention questions but all participants complete the post-test questions. This allows the priming effect of asking pre-intervention questions to be isolated in the analysis, while still allowing the baseline comparability between groups to be investigated.
Sponsors
Monash University
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
65 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
-Must be receiving rehabilitation for a variety of geriatric conditions at a Monash Health site such as Kingston Centre or Casey Hospital -Aged 65 years and over -Cognitively intact (determined by GPCog screen) -Sufficient English language skills
Exclusion criteria
-Palliative
Outcome results
None listed