Clinical trials: Loneliness, open to volunteers
Older Adults Institutionalized in Residential Homes
A Virtual Reality Program for Nursing Home Residents With Physical Disabilities
This project will evaluate how well the immersive virtual reality psychological program works in residential care homes and how it can be used in everyday practice.
- Trial name
- NCT07879677
- Testing
- Psychological intervention
- Volunteers
- 400 people
- Sponsor
- Tung Wah College
Loneliness, Grief
The Effects of Psilocybin on Social Connectedness
The study is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, expectancy-controlled, mechanistic trial. This study looks to explore whether a single dose of psilocybin (25mg) reduces amygdala reactivity to negative socioemotional…
- Trial name
- NCT07693153
- Testing
- Psilocybin
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 51 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Yale University
Depression, Anxiety
Brightline: Advancing Mental Health on Campus
This observational study will employ a multi-modal observation methodology, integrating data from wearable devices and smartphones to establish comprehensive digital biomarkers for identifying symptoms of mental health conditions…
- Conditions
- Depression, Anxiety, Stress, Positive Affect
- Trial name
- NCT06770075
- Testing
- Observational
- Where
- Singapore
- Volunteers
- 500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Nanyang Technological University
Depression and/or Anxiety in the Mild-to-moderate Range, Loneliness
Social Prescribing for a Mindful Lifestyle
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of an 8-week mindfulness lifestyle social prescribing program in community-dwelling older adults aged 55 and older.
- Conditions
- Depression and/or Anxiety in the Mild-to-moderate Range, Loneliness, Social Isolation
- Trial name
- NCT07669805
- Testing
- Mindfulness Lifestyle Social Prescribing Program
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital
Psychosis, Schizophrenia
Neurobehavioral Mechanisms of Social Isolation and Loneliness in Serious Mental Illness
The proposed research will test the hypothesis that objective social isolation and loneliness are linked to neurobehavioral mechanisms involved in social perception and motivation in individuals with and without serious mental…
- Trial name
- NCT04940663
- Testing
- EMA
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Loneliness
Structured Opportunities for Connection to Improve Aging-related Loneliness
The goal of this early phase clinical trial is to determine the impact of participation in planned social activities among adults 55 years of age or older, who report feelings of loneliness.
- Trial name
- SOCIAL (NCT07708844)
- Testing
- Prescribing of community activities; at least 2 hours per week
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Endeavor Health
Loneliness
Nostalgia Intervention on Alleviating Loneliness Amongst Older Adults
The proposed study will utilise a two-arm, cluster-randomised, waitlist-controlled trial to (1) examine the effects of the nostalgia intervention on loneliness, negative emotions, social connectedness, meaning in life and…
- Trial name
- NCT07288671
- Testing
- Nostalgia intervention
- Volunteers
- 294 people
- Sponsor
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
Aging, Physical Inactivity
Provincial Scale-up of Choose to Move (CTM) Phase 4
Choose to Move (CTM) is a 3-month, choice-based health-promoting program for low active older adults being scaled-up across British Columbia (BC), Canada.
- Conditions
- Aging, Physical Inactivity, Mobility Limitation, Loneliness
- Trial name
- NCT06434298
- Testing
- Choose to Move
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 5,720 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of British Columbia
Dementia in Nursing Home, Family
Connecting Today to Combat Social Isolation and Loneliness
The investigators developed Connecting Today, a feasible and highly acceptable remote visiting program that can support care home residents living with moderate to severe dementia to have video calls with their family members…
- Conditions
- Dementia in Nursing Home, Family, Remote Visits
- Trial name
- NCT07182019
- Testing
- Connecting Today
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 320 people
- Sponsor
- University of Alberta
Loneliness
A Novel Conditioning Approach to Counter Loneliness in Adults
This study aims to test the efficacy of a 6-session conditioning paradigm by investigating the conditioning-induced change in the socio-affective processing, loneliness, depressive symptoms, and neural correlates of lonely adults.
- Trial name
- NCT06521099
- Testing
- Evaluative Conditioning with positive stimuli, Conditioning with neutral stimuli
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 136 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Education University of Hong Kong
Loneliness, Social Isolation
Community Navigators
The Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion (TU Collaborative) is testing a community navigation intervention study based upon effective health navigation models by conducting a randomized controlled trial of the…
- Conditions
- Loneliness, Social Isolation, Mental Health Issue
- Trial name
- Navigators (NCT06594029)
- Testing
- Community Navigator Intervention, Control Group
- Volunteers
- 96 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Temple University
HIV
Bridge to Belonging: Peer Led Intervention to Reduce Loneliness and Depression Among Older Gay and Bisexual Men
Older gay and bisexual men living with HIV (OGBMLH) are more likely to experience depression and loneliness, which can lead to negative health outcomes.
- Trial name
- B2B (NCT07762066)
- Testing
- B2B Intervention, Control condition
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Fenway Community Health
Loneliness
Reducing Loneliness Among Older Adults Through Enhancing Positive Affect
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of two psychosocial interventions-Tele-Positive Affect (Tele-PA) and Tele-Behavioral Activation (Tele-BA)-compared to active control (telephone-delivered friendly visit, Tele-FV) in…
- Trial name
- NCT07021872
- Testing
- Tele-Positive Affect Intervention, Tele-Behavioral Activation Intervention, Tele-Friendly Visit
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 276 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Education University of Hong Kong
Parkinson Disease, Parkinson Disease, Idiopathic
Step Up to PD: A Community-based Walking Program for People With Parkinson's Disease
This study will investigate the feasibility of a 6-month community walking program for people with Parkinson's disease (PD) and their care partners in greater Saint Louis, Missouri region.
- Trial name
- NCT06859528
- Testing
- Community Walking Program
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- St. Louis University
Loneliness, Social Support
Activating Social Resources in Psychotherapy-Seeking Individuals: Effectiveness and Timing of a Social Support Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention
This study evaluates a Just-In-Time Adaptive Intervention (JITAI) aiming to foster social support processes for adults with elevated depressive symptoms awaiting outpatient psychotherapy.
- Conditions
- Loneliness, Social Support, Depressive Symptoms
- Trial name
- NCT07471529
- Testing
- Social Support Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 120 people
- Sponsor
- University of Zurich
Loneliness
Compartiendo Salud: Community-Based Intervention for Loneliness
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…
- Trial name
- SoledadLP (NCT06829758)
- Testing
- Compartiendo Salud
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 300 people
- Sponsor
- Servicio Canario de Salud
Loneliness, Mood
BabaCare: Testing a Care Copilot
Baba is a novel AI "care copilot" designed to improve emotional well-being, cognitive stimulation, and social connection through emotionally present conversations, proactive engagement, and personalized communication.
- Trial name
- Baba (NCT07689526)
- Testing
- AI phone companion
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University