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Social Health Games: The Use of Online Games to Decrease Loneliness in Older Adults

NCT04733898 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 76

Last updated 2023-03-31

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Loneliness

Interventions

OTHER

SamenSpelen.app

An app designed to play simple, social games in a chat environment. These games are designed to elicit personal interaction.

OTHER

FijnSpelen.app

An app designed to play simple, social games in a chat environment. These games are designed to not elicit personal interaction.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Radboud University Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Marcel Olde Rikkert, MD PhD · Radboud University Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-04-01
Primary Completion
2022-03-28
Completion
2022-03-28

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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