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Non-technology-based interventions

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Across all fields, 1 paper: none in people yet, 1 review

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  • 1 lab in 1 country
  • Funders: Health Foundation Limburg and 1 more

Outcomes

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Loneliness

downin humans1

1 study

  1. Non-technology-based interventions decrease loneliness in humans (Larger reduction: Δd = -0.35; 95% CI, -0.66 to -0.04; P = .029).

    “However, non-technology-based interventions reported larger effect sizes on average (Δd = -0.35; 95% CI, -0.66 to -0.04; P = .029) and were more often significant.”

    ReviewComparison by technology use in meta-regression

    Facing the Next "Geriatric Giant"-A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of Interventions Tackling Loneliness and Social Isolation Among Older Adults

    Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

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