Loneliness Group Intervention

Loneliness Clinical Trial

Official title:

Loneliness Group Intervention for Geriatric Psychiatry Inpatients

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05619718
• Other study ID #: 12528
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 23, 2024
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: March 2024
• Source: Lawson Health Research Institute
• Contact: Serena Wong, PhD
• Phone: 519-455-5110
• Email: serena.wong[@]sjhc.london.on.ca
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this pilot study is to determine the feasibility and acceptability of a group loneliness intervention in geriatric psychiatry inpatients. This type of group loneliness intervention is based on functional analytic psychotherapy and is called Awareness, Courage, and Love Groups.

Description:

The objective of our clinical trial is to adapt, implement, and evaluate a type of loneliness group intervention called Awareness, Courage, and Love Groups for older adults in a psychiatric unit. The following research questions will be answered: (a) Are ACL groups with geriatric psychiatry inpatients feasible and acceptable? (b) Do such ACL groups demonstrate preliminary efficacy?

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 50
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: August 25, 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 60 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Admission to geriatric psychiatry inpatient unit

Exclusion Criteria:

• Individuals who are disoriented to person, delirious, unable to tolerate or participate meaningfully in the group, or otherwise unable to provide consent to research and psychotherapy

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Loneliness

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Awareness, Courage, and Love Groups
Groups based on the Awareness, Courage, and Love framework from functional analytic psychotherapy

Other:
• Mutual Help Meetings
Groups based on treatment as usual where patients gather to discuss how they can help others on the ward, and make requests for how others can help them.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	Parkwood Institute Mental Health	London	Ontario

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Lawson Health Research Institute	Western University, Canada

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Satisfaction Questionnaire	Brief open-ended questions about program satisfaction. Responses are qualitative.	Up to 2 months
Primary	Inclusion of Other in the Self Scale (IOS)	Brief single-item pictorial measure of social closeness. The minimum value is 1, the maximum value is 7, and higher scores indicate a better outcome.	Up to 2 months
Primary	UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS-6)	Brief measure of loneliness. The minimum value is 6, the maximum value is 24, and higher scores indicate a worse outcome.	Up to 2 months
Primary	Relational Health Indices (RHI)	Brief measure of group relational health. The minimum value is 8, the maximum value is 40, and higher scores indicate a better outcome.	Up to 2 months
Primary	Quantitative Program Satisfaction	Brief measure of program satisfaction. The minimum value is 0, the maximum value is 16, and higher scores indicate a better outcome.	Up to 2 months
Secondary	Cantril Self-Anchoring Striving Scale	1 item pictorial scale of subjective wellbeing from 0 (minimum) to 10 (maximum). A higher score indicates a better outcome.	Up to 2 months
Secondary	Sacred Moment Qualities (SMQ)	Brief measure of perceived sacred qualities, adapted from Pargament et al. (2014). The minimum value is 11, the maximum value is 55, and higher scores indicate a better outcome.	Up to 2 months