Health Trials

Developing and Testing a Machine Learning Enabled Mindfulness Intervention for Reducing Loneliness Among Hong Kong Chinese Older Adults

ConditionLoneliness
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age65+
SponsorEducation University of Hong Kong

About this trial

Develop and test an effective machine learning enabled application-based (app-based) mindfulness intervention for reducing loneliness of Hong Kong Chinese older adults.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Aged 65 or older

Possess a smartphone with an Android or iOS operating system

Communicable in Cantonese

Lonely (cut-off >/=6 on the three-item UCLA Loneliness Scale)

Disqualifiers

Cognitive impairment, psychiatric disorder, learning disability

Active suicide ideation

Engaged in psychotherapy and psychosocial interventions in the past year

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Mindfulness - Continue
  • Mindfulness - Enhance human coaching
  • Mindfulness - Booster
  • Active Control

Treatment groups

250 Participants
are divided into 13 treatment groups

13

Treatment groups

See each treatment group below.

Sponsors and collaborators

Education University of Hong Kong

Lead sponsor

University of Texas at Austin

Collaborator

Source ClinicalTrials.gov