oneliness management as part of psychiatric treatment structure - Introduction and evaluation of the intervention The Social Being, a social-cognitive training intervention for coping with loneliness in the therapeutic context
- Conditions
- oneliness
- Registration Number
- DRKS00032392
- Lead Sponsor
- Institut für Medizinische Psychologie und Medizinische Soziologie Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 240
Treatment in the context of acute psychiatry
Overall UCLA LS ES score between >1.7 to 5 (range from partial to severe loneliness (cf. Döring and Bortz 1993, Wichert and Mandera 2015)
legal age
ability to consent
Written consent from the subject
Speak and understand the German language
acute suicidality
acute psychotic symptoms
significant cognitive limitations
acute self-harm symptoms
Restrictions that deny consent (e.g. reservation of consent in the case of legal supervision)
lack of voluntariness in treatment (e.g. resolution, PsychHG).
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Review of the change in the experience of loneliness and the dimensions 1. Feeling of loneliness, 2. Social isolation and 3. Emotional isolation. Verification by the UCLA LS ES (university of california loneliness scale simple language) questionnaire consisting of 19 items. Measurement T1 start of intervention/start of guideline-based treatment, T2 end of intervention/guideline-based treatment, T3 6 months after treatment.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Review of change in self-efficacy experience. Verification by the questionnaire SWOP (Questionnaire on Self-Efficacy Optimism Pessimism short form), reduced to 5 items of self-efficacy. Checking the change in depression, anxiety and stress symptoms. Verification using the DASS questionnaire (Depressions-Angst-Stress-Scale - German-language summary), consisting of 20 items. measurement T1 start of intervention/start of guideline-based treatment, T2 end of intervention/guideline-based treatment, T3 6 months after treatment.