View clinical trials related to Loneliness.
Filter by:The purpose of this study is to better understand how a telephone reminiscence program impacts reminiscence functions and mental health outcomes in community-dwelling older adults.This study will take 12 weeks to complete and will include approximately 90 study participants. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two telephone reminiscence groups.They will be either assigned to begin a telephone reminiscence program immediately or in 6 weeks. Participants will receive automatic calls three times a week asking the meaningful questions about their lives. At week 1, week 6, and week 12, participants will also be asked to complete assessments via phone, by research assistants using four questionnaires.
In 2019, the Office of the California Surgeon General launched the ACEs Aware Initiative in collaboration with the California Department of Health Care Services. This ambitious campaign aims to develop a network of care model of healthcare delivery that explicitly links health resources within communities to clinicians screening patients for ACEs. The ACEs Aware Initiative recognizes nature experiences as one of seven "stress busters." Indeed, California boasts many outdoor resources for clinicians to integrate into the network of care. Through a calming effect on the autonomic nervous system, providing a setting for supportive relationships to develop and physical activity to occur, time in nature may help California prevent, heal and treat ACEs and the clinical sequelae. As one of the most common psychiatric disorders in youth, anxiety remains one of the most important sequelae of ACEs. There is a gap in evidence evaluating nature-based programs for child mental health. This study will evaluate BLOOM [Boldly Living outdOOrs for Mental health], a new intervention which is a modified version of an existing nature-based curriculum called SHINE (Stay Healthy In Nature Everyday) curriculum currently in place at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, which takes youth and their families into nature once a month for stress relief. This new intervention mirrors SHINE except that it will be tailored to children ages 9-12 with a history of ACEs and current anxiety. This study will evaluate the benefits of a group intervention model, an independent nature-outing model, and a comparison to a wait-listed control group. Our goal is to provide a scalable model for low-cost mental health care to the California Department of Health Care Services.
This randomized clinical trial aims to test the effects of 10 sessions of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on social and emotional functions in lonely older adults. The main objectives include: - Understand whether tDCS could successfully boost positive social processing and social motivation in older adults, paralleling its effect on non-social reward processing; - Understand whether the reduced negative and increased positive social processing in older adults would translate to an increase in real-life social activity and a decrease in loneliness feeling; - Examine the intervention efficacy of tDCS among the aged population; - Understand whether the tDCS effect could be long-lasting (i.e., 1 and 3 months after intervention). Participants will be lonely older adults aged 60 or above and screened on inclusion and exclusion criteria. Eligible participants will be randomly allocated to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) tDCS group, the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) tDCS group, or the sham control group. Participants will complete an Emotion Rating Task, questionnaires assessing their psychosocial functions, and neuropsychological tests assessing their cognitive functions at baseline, after the 5th stimulation session, immediately after the 10th stimulation session, and 1 month and 3 months after the 10th stimulation session.
This study is a field trial where "Komp" is implemented and tested as part of Oslo Municipality's home care services for older adults. Komp is a "one button" communication device designed specifically for older adults who are unfamiliar with or struggle to use conventional digital technologies such as smart phones, computers, or tablets. The aim of the trial is to study the effects of increased social contact with family and care services via Komp. In a randomized design, 300 Komp units will be offered to a sample of older municipal home care service recipients. By comparing the intervention group (who are offered to test Komp for free) with the control group (who receive services as usual), the study will uncover if, on average, users of Komp 1) can live longer at home than non-users, 2) have lesser need of home care services, and 3) are happier, safer, and more socially connected.
This quantitative study assesses the baseline anxiety, satisfaction with life, and loneliness scores in students and staff in a global study. Assessments at baseline will include the GAD, SWLS, and UCLA loneliness scale, and the same questionnaires were collected in Week 4 and Week 8. The Google form questionnaire will ask the high schoolers and staff for their email address and their parent's email address (if they are under 18). The form will also include a question eliciting interest in participation in the 4-weeks Heartfulness program. The program will include tools that promote a heart-based nurturing environment focusing on relaxation, positivity, and developing growth mindsets.
This study investigated the impact of traditional classical Turkish music as a telehealth intervention on reducing stress and loneliness among elderly individuals.
Severe loneliness is a large and growing clinical and societal problem. Although there are interventions for loneliness, elevated levels often remain. This pilot study evaluates the feasibility and acceptability of an intervention to alleviate social and emotional loneliness among students. The second aim is to obtain effect sizes that inform sample size calculations of a subsequent randomized controlled trial (RCT). The goal of this clinical trial is to learn about the feasibility and acceptability of a group intervention aimed at reducing social and emotional loneliness and social isolation in students. In addition, we want to obtain effect sizes that can inform the sample size calculation of a subsequent randomized controlled trial (RCT). The hypotheses are that: - Participants after completing the intervention have reduced levels of social and emotional loneliness and social isolation compared to baseline (primary outcomes). - Participants after completing the intervention have reduced levels of social anxiety, depressive symptoms, and better daily functioning compared to baseline (secondary outcomes). Before the group intervention starts, participants will first follow a baseline period, ranging between 1 and 7 weeks. The length of the baseline period is based on the date of enrolment and therefore not random. Following the baseline period, all participants will start in the group intervention. This intervention aims to encourage social behavioural activation tailored to the values of the participant and teach skills that make negative emotions and thoughts less bothersome and reduce feelings of loneliness. This intervention consists of seven weekly group sessions and a booster session. The intervention is offered in a group format to maximize possibilities for interpersonal therapeutic practice and is framed as a psycho-educational course to increase its acceptability. Data are collected at screening, pre-intervention, post-intervention, one-month follow-up and three-month follow-up, as well as during weekly measurements during the baseline period and the course period. Primary outcome measures are social and emotional loneliness and social isolation. Secondary outcome measures are social anxiety, depression, and daily functioning. Other outcome measures are interpersonal problems and assessment of the sessions. Participants will be recruited via posters at the University of Amsterdam.
Older adult participants will engage in exercise videos twice a week for 8 weeks either while paired with a peer (same age group) or paired with a younger adult with the ability to simultaneously video chat while exercising.
A specific aim of this research is to identify the role of emotion regulation in response to social threat in caregivers' response to a behavioral coaching intervention for loneliness. A second aim of the study is to determine the benefit of a digitized, social engagement prioritization tool for improving coaches' intervention fidelity and caregiver outcomes. This study is funded through the Pilot Award Program of the Rochester Roybal Center for Social Ties & Aging Research, a UR Center funded by the National Institute on Aging by grant P30AG064103.
The concept of cognitive stimulation in AD is one of the most popular approaches. Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) is stated to be evidence-based best practice with robust clinical trials, administered according to specific guidelines for individuals with mild to moderate dementia. In this study, it was aimed to investigate the effects of CST application on the levels of apathy, loneliness, anxiety and daily living activities in elderly individuals with Alzheimer's disease. This research was planned in an experimental research design with a single center and pretest posttest control group. The research was planned to be carried out between January 2023 and June 202 at the Moral House of Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality, Department of Disabled and Health Services. Introductory Information Form, Standardized Mini-Mental Test, Geriatric Anxiety Scale, Apathy Rating Scale, Loneliness Scale and Functional Disability in Dementia Scale will be used in the research. CST will be administered by a researcher trained in therapy, 2 days a week, for a total of 14 sessions of 45-50 minutes. There will be a pre-test before the application, an intermediate test right after the application, and a post-test three months later. Research data will be evaluated in SPSS 25.0 New York package program.