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NCT Number: NCT04567940

ENRED@TE. Social Support in Southern Spain. Interventional Study

The main objective to be achieved is to find out if the perceived social support, the perceived loneliness, the perceived social isolation and the family support of those over 65 years of age improve after participating in the Enréd@te project carried out by the Spanish Red Cross (CRE).

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Key information

Conditions

Social Isolation Behavior Social Behavior

Age range

65 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Maimónides Biomedical Research Institute of Córdoba

Córdoba, Cordoba, 14004, Spain

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • People over 65 years
  • Not institutionalised

Exclusion criteria

  • Participants of other programs
  • Difficulty responding to measurement scales due to language barriers
  • Legal incapacitation
  • People with a residence of less than 3 months in the city

Treatment and study plan

ENRED@TE: Behavioural multicomponent intervention

Behavioral

Information and awareness activities; activities for the acquisition of skills; activities that help the elderly to attend spaces for leisure, participation and maintenance and/or improvement of their personal relationships.

Primary outcomes

  1. Social isolation

    Time frame: 6 months

    Duke-UNC Functional Social Support Questionnaire (Bellón et al. 1996) is an eight-item instrument to measure the strength of the person's social support network. Each item is ranged from 1 to 5 points, where high scores represent greater social support.

  2. Loneliness

    Time frame: 6 months

    UCLA Loneliness Scale (Russell DW, 1996) which is a 20-item scale designed to measure one's subjective feelings of loneliness as well as feelings of social isolation. This tool use a 4-point rating scale (1= never; 4 = always). High values mean more loneliness.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Detection of risk situations or social problems

    Time frame: 6 months

    Gijón socio-family assessment scale (García González et al. 1999) allows the detection of risk situations or social problems. Values range from 3 to 15. Higher values mean more severe social decline.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Maimónides Biomedical Research Institute of Córdoba

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2019
Primary completion
2020
Study completion
2021
First posted
Sep 29, 2020
Registry last updated
Oct 12, 2022

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