View clinical trials related to Loneliness.
Filter by:This study aims to enroll 300 participants who will be assigned to one of three 3 groups. Each group will receive an intervention lasting 6, weekly sessions of 40-60 minutes. Eligibility include having an opioid use disorder and reporting loneliness or feeling alone or disconnected.
This study aims to compare different versions of a 16-week online self-help program in terms of their effect on self-assessed mental health, well-being, and productivity. The versions differ in their intensity (standard, low) and type (buddy, group) of guidance, the applied psychotherapeutic approaches taught (IFS, CBT). We expect to recruit a sample of ~150 ambitious altruists and have them self-select into the four program versions. Participants take part in surveys before, at weeks 8, 12, and 16 to self-assess their productivity, mental health burden, quality of life, and other risk and protection factors. Weekly screenings will provide data on objective and subjective success components such as participant engagement, working alliance, and treatment adherence, which will be correlated with primary and secondary outcomes.
Loneliness is a key predictor of mortality in older adults, and is a prominent risk factor for mental and physical illness in older adulthood. The goal of this study is to determine the feasibility and acceptability of a group loneliness intervention in geriatric psychiatry outpatients. This type of group loneliness intervention is based on functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP), called Awareness, Courage, and Love (ACL) Groups. The objective of our clinical trial is to adapt, implement, and evaluate the ACL group for outpatients.
This study aims to explore the influence of nature-oriented chatbots on the mental health of older adults residing alone. Leveraging the therapeutic potential of nature exposure and the interactive capabilities of chatbot technology, our research seeks to investigate whether engaging with nature-oriented chatbots can mitigate feelings of depression, and loneliness while enhancing overall psychological well-being and quality of life. Through a combination of experimental interventions and psychological assessments, the investigators will assess the impact of nature-oriented chatbots on participants' mental health outcomes.
Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island (MOWRI), in partnership with the University of Connecticut (UConn), will implement and evaluate an enhanced version of its Home-Delivered Meals Program (HDMP). The project goal is to implement and test the effectiveness of an enhanced Home-Delivered Meals (HDM) service delivery approach. The enhanced approach includes community health worker (CHW) interactions and supplemental healthy grocery bags to address diet quality, food and nutrition security, loneliness, and health-related quality of life for older adults. MOWRI participants at the highest nutritional risk will be randomized to receive standard or enhanced services in order to test the effect of the intervention on health-related outcomes. Anticipated outcomes for individuals receiving enhanced services are improvements in measures of diet quality, food and nutrition security, loneliness, and health-related quality of life compared with those receiving standard HDM services.
The goal of this clinical trial is to assess the usefulness of social robots reducing unwanted loneliness in persons over 65 living in nursing homes. The main questions it aims to answer are: - Can social robots reduce unwanted loneliness? - Can social robots improve quality of live and well-being? The selected centers are organized in several classes of living units. Living units are independent physical spaces with their own common facilities for the persons living in (usually around 15). Living units of the same class gather persons with similar characteristics. To compare the added value of the robots half of the living units will be allocated to a control group, and the other half to the intervention group. The persons in living units allocated to the control group will receive the same attentions and care which were receiving before the enrollment in the study, whereas the persons allocated to the intervention group will add a social robot to their usual therapies and activities. Namely participants will do three weekly individual cognitive stimulation sessions of 10 minutes each one, two weekly group mobility sessions of 30 minutes, one monthly conversational group about customs and traditions of 60 minutes, one 10 minutes videoconference per month with their relatives. Furthermore, participants will be able to interact freely with the robot to obtain information about the center (for instance, what is for dinner) and its activities. The intervention will last 8 weeks. To assess the effectivity, the investigators will assess both groups, before the intervention, at the end of the intervention and 4 weeks after finishing the intervention.
Loneliness in elderly individuals increases with age and negatively affects individuals by decreasing life satisfaction. In recent years, horticultural therapy is a type of therapy that has developed and is added routine care of elderly individuals living in nursing homes. Social interaction, life satisfaction, feelings of success and responsibility and increase while loneliness and depression levels decrease through human-nature interaction in horticultural therapy. In our country, no study has been found on the effects of horticultural therapy on physical or mental health in elderly individuals. This research will be conducted as a randomized control group study to examine the effects of horticultural therapy on loneliness and life satisfaction in elderly individuals living in nursing homes.
Loneliness, which is the perceived feeling of insufficient personal relationships, is related to higher risk for inappropriate opioid use and opioid use disorders in patients who are taking opioids long-term. The study seeks to pilot test the evidence-based loneliness interventions of psychological therapy and social navigation in patients on chronic opioids treated in primary care practices to determine if reducing loneliness can lower opioid misuse.
The goal of this study is to test the contemplative practice is feasible and acceptable among informal dementia caregivers population at all stages.
The main objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of DIAL (an innovative and user-friendly solution based on Multiplatform Voice Assistive Technologies) in reducing unwanted loneliness and increasing the mental health and the quality of life in individuals over 65 years old. Additionally, a secondary objective is to evaluate the experience of using the system, including aspects of usability and satisfaction, and to analyze whether the functionalities provided by DIAL contribute to the improvement of various dimensions in the lives of the elderly. It is hypothesized that DIAL will reduce unwanted loneliness and improve mental health in older people. In addition, we aim to obtain positive ratings in terms of usability and satisfaction with DIAL, along with the verification that most of the functionalities provided by DIAL will be useful to older people.