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Loneliness Group Intervention

NCT05619718 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2025-09-24

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Summary

The goal of this pilot study is to determine the feasibility and acceptability of a group loneliness intervention in geriatric psychiatry inpatients. This type of group loneliness intervention is based on functional analytic psychotherapy and is called Awareness, Courage, and Love Groups.

Conditions

  • Loneliness

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Awareness, Courage, and Love Groups

Groups based on the Awareness, Courage, and Love framework from functional analytic psychotherapy

OTHER

Mutual Help Meetings

Groups based on treatment as usual where patients gather to discuss how they can help others on the ward, and make requests for how others can help them.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Western University, Canada

    collaborator OTHER

  • London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Elisabeth VanBussel, MD · St. Joseph's Health Care London

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-02-23
Primary Completion
2027-08-25
Completion
2027-09-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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