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Let \(\Omega \) be a bounded domain in \({\mathbb{R}}^n\). The author considers the parabolic type equation \[ u_{tt}+\sum_{|\alpha |=|\beta |=2}D^\alpha (a_{\alpha \beta }(x)D^\beta u)-\sum_{i=1}^{n}(b(x,|u_{tx}|^{p-1})|u_{tx_i}|^{p-2}u_{tx_i})_{x_i}+ c(x)u_t=0 \] together with the boundary and initial conditions of the form \[ u|_S=\sum_{|\alpha |=|\beta |=2}a_{\alpha \beta }(x)D^\beta u\nu ^\alpha |_S=0;\quad u(x,0)=\phi (x);\;u_t(x,0)=\psi (x). \] Here \(p>2,\;S=\partial \Omega \times (0,\infty ),\;\nu ^\alpha =(\nu_1 ^{\alpha _1},\ldots ,\nu_n ^{\alpha _n})\), and \(\nu =(\nu _1,\ldots ,\nu _n)\) is the unit normal vector for \(\partial \Omega \). It is supposed that the coefficients of the equation and the functions \(\phi ,\;\psi \) satisfy certain natural conditions which include the following ones: \(0<b_0\leq b(x,\xi )\leq b^0,\;(x,\xi )\in \bar \Omega \times {\mathbb{R}}\), the function \(b(x,\xi )\xi \) being monotonically increasing with respect to \(\xi \) for all \(x\in{\mathbb{R}}^n\); \(c(x)\in L^{\infty }(\Omega ),\;c(x)\geq c_0\). It is shown that if \(c_0\geq 0\;(c_0>0)\), then the trivial solution of the equation is stable (asymptotically stable) with respect to the functional \(\rho (u)=\left(\int_{\Omega }^{}(u_t^2+\sum_{|\alpha |=2}^{}(D^\alpha u)^2) dx \right )^{1/2}\). Moreover, in the case of asymptotic stability the estimate \(\rho (u)\leq c/t\) is true for almost all \(t\geq t_0>0\;(c\equiv \text{const})\).