Description Module
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Description Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 7:39 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 7:39 PM
NCT ID:
NCT06876103
Brief Summary:
There has been growing awareness of the importance of death anxiety (DA) in pathological anxiety. DA is defined as a persistent and unreasonable fear of death and thoughts, fears, and emotions associated with the end of life. DA has been suggested as a core fear that underpins the emergence and perseverance of numerous anxiety disorders. However, previous DA-based treatment studies focus on the elderly, the patients, or health professionals who care for the terminally ill. Therefore, there is a need to examine the effect of psychological interventions on DA and current disorder symptoms in a clinical sample through randomized controlled trials. The current study aims to develop a novel Religiously Integrated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (RCBT)-based intervention on DA in individuals diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and to compare the effectiveness of RCBT-based intervention with classical CBT-based intervention.
Detailed Description:
Religion facilitates the pursuit of symbolic immortality by providing individuals with purpose and hope in both life and death. Those who believe in an afterlife also see their world as fairer, which results in lower levels of psychiatric symptoms. Previous CBT-based death anxiety interventions did not consider the assumption of an afterlife. RCBT is an approach that integrates spiritual or religious beliefs into the therapeutic process. RCBT is an approach that recognizes the importance of spirituality or religion in a client's life and aims to use these beliefs and practices positively within the context of evidence-based CBT. Briefly, no intervention studies have investigated the effect of RCBT on DA. This will be the first study to develop an RCBT-based intervention for DA.
Study:
NCT06876103
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT06876103