Journal of medical Internet research
Participant Characteristics Associated With Loneliness Reduction During a Digital Social Robot Intervention Among Older Adults Living Alone in Japan: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial
By Murayama H and Takase M.
Abstract
Among community-dwelling older adults living alone, less frequent preintervention social contact was associated with greater reductions in loneliness during a social robot intervention. Future trials should examine whether preintervention social contact modifies the effects of social robot interventions.
Keywords
- Loneliness
- Japan
- Robotics
- Social Isolation
- Secondary Data Analysis
- digital social robots
- loneliness
- older adults living alone
- randomized controlled trial
- secondary analysis
- social contact
- social isolation
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