Trial reportInternational psychogeriatrics2015
Predictors of change in quality of life in older adults with generalized anxiety disorder.
Trial report in International psychogeriatrics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00308724 (Treating Late-Life Generalized Anxiety Disorder), which is not on this map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Treating Late-Life Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) in Primary Care
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Associations between loneliness and perceived social support and outcomes of mental health problems: a systematic review.BMC psychiatry · 2018Pooled it
- Psychometric properties and age- and gender-specific normative values of the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 among older adults aged 60 years and above.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Psychometric properties of the World Health Organization WHOQOL-AGE Scale in Singapore.European journal of ageing · 2024Article
- Predictors for quality of life in older adults: network analysis on cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
- COVID-19 anxiety and quality of life among Iranian nurses.BMC nursing · 2022Article
- Community cohesion during the first peak of the COVID-19 pandemic: A social antidote to health anxiety and stress.Journal of applied social psychology · 2021Article
- Protocol for a Nested Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy of the Mindfulness Based Health Promotion Program on the Quality of Life of Older Adults Assisted in Primary Care-"The MBHP-Elderly Study".Frontiers in medicine · 2020Article
- Predicting change in quality of life from age 79 to 90 in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2019Article
- Minority population group status and QOL change: The case of older Israelis.European journal of ageing · 2016Article
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8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundQuality of life (QOL) is lower in older adults with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). QOL generally improves following cognitive-behavioral treatment for GAD. Little is known, however, about additional variables predicting changes in QOL in older adults with GAD. This study examined predictors of change in QOL among older participants in a randomized clinical trial of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for GAD, relative to enhanced usual care (EUC).
methodsHierarchical multilevel mixed-model analyses were used to examine inter-individual and intra-individual factors that predicted QOL over time. Predictors were categorized into treatment, personal and clinical characteristics.
resultsQOL improved over time, and there was significant variability between participants in change in QOL. Controlling for treatment condition, baseline general self-efficacy, baseline social support, within-person variation in worry and depression and average levels of depression across different time points predicted changes in QOL.
conclusionsQOL has increasingly been used as an outcome measure in treatment outcome studies to focus on overall improvement in functioning. Attention to improvement in symptoms of depression and worry, along with psychosocial variables, such as social support and self-efficacy, may help improve QOL in older adults with GAD. This study was a secondary study of data from a randomized clinical trial (NCT00308724) registered with clinical.trials.gov.
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