试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 撤回
- 发起方
- Mayo Clinic
- 主要终点
- Loneliness Alleviation with Letter Writing
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this research is to study whether sending letters helps reduce loneliness for either the facility resident or the teenager.
详细描述
Hypothesis
Our hypothesis is that a social program connecting patients in residential care facilities with high school students through monthly letter writing would positively impact quality of life for both, reducing quantitative and qualitiative measures of loneliness
Aims, purpose, or objectives:
Our objective is to reduce loneliness and increase quality of life for patients residing in residential care facilities and for high school students.
Background (Include relevant experience, gaps in current knowledge, preliminary data, etc.):
In response to the Covid pandemic, to protect their residents, residential care facilities have implemented restrictions limiting visitors as well as social activities. Anecdoctally this has negative impacted the quality of life of those residents, increasing their loneliness. Previous studies have shown positive impact of intergenerational programs including penpal programs.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 15 Years 至 —（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Care facility residents with capacity to make decisions:
- •Measured via their most recent cognitive assessment;
- •Subjectively measured via nursing staff.
- •High school students will be invited via recommendation of their instructors and school administrative staff:
- •Parental permission will be required.
排除标准
- •Care facility residents that have significant cognitive impairment.
- •Residents who lack decision-making capacity.
结局指标
主要结局
Loneliness Alleviation with Letter Writing
时间窗: 6 months; may be extended
Writing letters between Long Term Care Residents and Students: Increasing Connection to Alleviate Loneliness
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Susan B. Laabs
Principal Investigator
Mayo Clinic