NCT05619718

Loneliness Group Intervention

Loneliness Group Intervention for Geriatric Psychiatry Inpatients

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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.

Detailed 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?

Conditions

• Loneliness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-02-23
• Primary completion: 2027-08-25
• Completion: 2027-09-30
• First posted: 2022-11-17
• Last updated: 2025-09-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada