Social Health Games: a Gamified Intervention to Decrease Loneliness in Older Adults - a Randomized Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 终止
- 入组人数
- 76
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Loneliness indirect
研究概览
简要总结
This study examines whether social platform games are effective in expanding the social network and decreasing the experienced levels of loneliness in older adults. The newly developed social games will be compared to non-personal games and not playing games.
详细描述
Rationale: loneliness and social isolation are an increasing problem in older adults with the aging of society. One option to foster social contact is through online games, which allow social interaction at a distance.
Objective: to investigate whether playing social online games has a beneficial effect on subjective loneliness and social network in older adults, compared with playing non-personal games and not playing games.
Study design: 3-arm randomized controlled trial.
Study population: A sample of 300 human volunteers aged 65 and over, who have access to a smartphone and an internet connection. The sample will be evenly distributed across the three groups.
Everybody else is allowed to use the gaming portal; they will form the pool of people that the participants can play with. This pool will be tracked within the gaming portal and posed some questions regarding their fellow players and their experiences loneliness. People aged under 16 can play but will not be tracked.
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 (Investigator)
盲法说明
The investigator analyzing data will be blind to the group coding and the personal information. Only anonymized data will be available to them.
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
- •Being 65 years or older
- •Have access to a smartphone with an internet connection
排除标准
- •Visual or cognitive impairments that limit independent use of a mobile phone
- •Not being fluent in the Dutch language
结局指标
主要结局
Loneliness indirect
时间窗: Three months
The change in indirectly measured loneliness (De Jong Gierveld loneliness scale (range 1-11, higher indicating more loneliness)) over three months between the three groups
Loneliness direct
时间窗: Three months
The change in directly measured loneliness (Likert scale (range 1-5, higher indicating more loneliness) over three months between the three groups
次要结局
- Loneliness time series(Twelve months)
- Wellbeing(Twelve months)
- Social network composition(Twelve months)