Loneliness Group Intervention

N/AActive Not RecruitingNCT05619718

London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's50 enrolled

Overview

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.

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?

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Loneliness

Interventions

Awareness, Courage, and Love GroupsBEHAVIORAL

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

Mutual Help MeetingsOTHER

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.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 60 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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

Locations (1)

Parkwood Institute Mental Health

London, Ontario, Canada

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Inclusion of Other in the Self Scale (IOS)

Brief single-item pictorial measure of social closeness. The minimum value is 1, the maximum value is 7, and higher scores indicate a better outcome.

Time frame: Up to 2 months

UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS-6)

Brief measure of loneliness. The minimum value is 6, the maximum value is 24, and higher scores indicate a worse outcome.

Time frame: Up to 2 months

Relational Health Indices (RHI)

Brief measure of group relational health. The minimum value is 8, the maximum value is 40, and higher scores indicate a better outcome.

Time frame: Up to 2 months

Quantitative Program Satisfaction

Brief measure of program satisfaction. The minimum value is 0, the maximum value is 16, and higher scores indicate a better outcome.

Time frame: Up to 2 months

Secondary Outcomes

Cantril Self-Anchoring Striving Scale

1 item pictorial scale of subjective wellbeing from 0 (minimum) to 10 (maximum). A higher score indicates a better outcome.

Time frame: Up to 2 months

Sacred Moment Qualities (SMQ)

Brief measure of perceived sacred qualities, adapted from Pargament et al. (2014). The minimum value is 11, the maximum value is 55, and higher scores indicate a better outcome.

Time frame: Up to 2 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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