Increasing Social Competence and Social Integration of Older Adults Experiencing Loneliness
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 74
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Change in Loneliness
研究概览
简要总结
The purposes of this study are: (1) decrease loneliness and social isolation and increase social competence and social integration of older adults experiencing loneliness; (2) examine an intervention process grounded in a theoretical model that was developed in a previous study. The intervention process is tailored to the participants' barriers and abilities, and includes up to 10 personal meetings with an activities counselor and several group meetings.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 65 Years 至 —（Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •age 65 or over
- •residing in the Tel Aviv region
排除标准
- •having known mental illness including schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, and dementia
研究组 & 干预措施
I-SOCIAL intervention
Participants in this group will have up to 10 personal meetings with activities counselors and several group meetings.
干预措施: I-SOCIAL intervention (Behavioral)
Control group
Participants in this group will not have meetings with the activities counselors, and will not take part in the group meetings.
结局指标
主要结局
Change in Loneliness
时间窗: Participants will be assessed before and after the intervention, an expected average of 6 months
Loneliness will be assessed via several measures: (a) Frequency of loneliness will be measured via one item ("How often would you say you feel lonely?"; (Mullins, Woodland, \& Putnam, 1990) on a 6-point scale from "never" (1) to "several times an hour" (6); (b) The UCLA Loneliness Scale- 8 items (ULS-8; (Hays \& DiMatteo, 1987). Each item is rated on a 5-point scale from "not at all" (1) to "to a great extent" (5), with a higher score indicating more loneliness. Based on experience from another study (Cohen-Mansfield et al., 2013) one item ("I am unhappy being so withdrawn") was replaced with two items ("I feel physically distant from other people"; "I feel emotionally distant from other people).
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Professor Jiska Cohen-Mansfield
Professor, Department of Health Promotion, Director- The Minerva Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of the End of Life
Tel Aviv University