ENRED@TE. Social Support in Southern Spain. Interventional Study
- Conditions
- Social Isolation
- Registration Number
- NCT04567940
- Lead Sponsor
- Maimónides Biomedical Research Institute of Córdoba
- Brief Summary
The main objective to be achieved is to find out if the perceived social support, the perceived loneliness, the perceived social isolation and the family support of those over 65 years of age improve after participating in the Enréd@te project carried out by the Spanish Red Cross (CRE).
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 210
- People over 65 years
- Not institutionalised
- Participants of other programs
- Difficulty responding to measurement scales due to language barriers
- Legal incapacitation
- People with a residence of less than 3 months in the city
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Loneliness 6 months UCLA Loneliness Scale (Russell DW, 1996) which is a 20-item scale designed to measure one's subjective feelings of loneliness as well as feelings of social isolation. This tool use a 4-point rating scale (1= never; 4 = always). High values mean more loneliness.
Social isolation 6 months Duke-UNC Functional Social Support Questionnaire (Bellón et al. 1996) is an eight-item instrument to measure the strength of the person's social support network. Each item is ranged from 1 to 5 points, where high scores represent greater social support.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Detection of risk situations or social problems 6 months Gijón socio-family assessment scale (García González et al. 1999) allows the detection of risk situations or social problems. Values range from 3 to 15. Higher values mean more severe social decline.
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Maimónides Biomedical Research Institute of Córdoba
🇪🇸Córdoba, Cordoba, Spain