Loneliness Group Intervention

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

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Loneliness

Treatments: Behavioral: Awareness, Courage, and Love Groups; Other: Mutual Help Meetings

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05619718

12528

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full description

The objective of our clinical trial is to adapt, implement, and evaluate a type of loneliness group intervention called Awareness, Courage, and Love Groups for older adults in a psychiatric unit. The following research questions will be answered: (a) Are ACL groups with geriatric psychiatry inpatients feasible and acceptable? (b) Do such ACL groups demonstrate preliminary efficacy?

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Admission to geriatric psychiatry inpatient unit

Exclusion criteria

• Individuals who are disoriented to person, delirious, unable to tolerate or participate meaningfully in the group, or otherwise unable to provide consent to research and psychotherapy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment

Experimental group

Description:

Treatment group will receive Awareness, Courage, and Love Groups for loneliness.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Awareness, Courage, and Love Groups

Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Control group will receive treatment as usual in the form of Mutual Help Meetings.

Treatment:

Other: Mutual Help Meetings