Compartiendo Salud: Community-Based Intervention for Loneliness

ConditionLoneliness
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age65+
SponsorServicio Canario de Salud

About this trial

Unwanted loneliness is the gap between the social relations a person has and those they want. The main objective of this research is to assess the impact of a multidimensional community-based intervention on the feeling of unwanted loneliness in the population over the age of 65 years old, who living alone, under social risk or socially isolated living in the La Palma island.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

People over the age of 65 and living alone

Nursing diagnosis of social risk

Nursing diagnosis of social isolation

Disqualifiers

presenting moderate/severe cognitive decline or Pfeiffer scores above 6

individuals with uncorrected hearing deficits that hinder group interaction

participants not subjected to the pre- and post-interventions measurements

participants that do not take part in at least four of the five sessions scheduled

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Compartiendo Salud

Treatment groups

300 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment group

Sponsors and collaborators

Servicio Canario de Salud

Lead sponsor

University of La Laguna

Collaborator