ReviewPerspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2015
Loneliness: clinical import and interventions.
Review in Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 5 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 476 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Combating Social Isolation in Older Adults: Randomized Clinical Trial Evaluating the Acceptability and Efficacy of a Brief, Technology Delivered Intervention
Interventions to Reduce Loneliness in Elderly Patients in the Cardiac ICU (CICU): A Randomized Control Trial
The Feasibility, Acceptability and Preliminary Efficacy of a Group Intervention Aimed at Reducing Social and Emotional Loneliness: a Pilot Study
Reducing Loneliness Among Older Adults Through Enhancing Positive Affect: A Randomized Controlled Trial With Ecological Momentary Assessments
The Role of Solo Music Listening in Reducing Loneliness and Increasing Social Connectedness in Older Adults
Who cites it
476 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 1,159 citations in OpenAlex.
- Longitudinal associations between loneliness and outcomes of Common Mental Disorders (CMDs): A systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Efficacy of Technology-Based Interventions on the Reduction of Loneliness: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- Belongingness and loneliness in higher education: a meta-analysis of pre- and post-pandemic trends.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Tackling social disconnection: an umbrella review of RCT-based interventions targeting social isolation and loneliness.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Cardiovascular Mortality: The Role of Health Care System Interventions.Current cardiology reports · 2024Pooled it
- Interventions for loneliness in older adults: a systematic review of reviews.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- The experience of loneliness among people with psychosis: Qualitative meta-synthesis.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- Loneliness and depression: bidirectional mendelian randomization analyses using data from three large genome-wide association studies.Molecular psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Health effects of social connectedness in older adults living in congregate long-term care settings: A systematic review of quantitative and qualitative evidence.International journal of older people nursing · 2023Pooled it
- Critical components of social prescribing programmes with a focus on older adults - a systematic review.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2023Pooled it
- Assessing a facilitated social network intervention for health outcomes in lonely and socially isolated people: the pragmatic, cluster-randomized PALS trial.Frontiers in public health · 2026Trial
- Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Outcomes of a Mobile Adaptation of a Relational Savoring Intervention to Prevent Loneliness in College Students: Mixed Methods Pilot Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Trial
- Groups for belonging: a parallel cluster randomized controlled trial of a group-based loneliness intervention for people attending treatment for alcohol and other drug use.BMC public health · 2025Trial
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- Effects of a 16-week dance intervention on loneliness and self-esteem in left behind children: a randomised controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Supportive-leadership training to improve social connection: A cluster-randomized trial demonstrating efficacy in a high-risk occupational context.Journal of occupational health psychology · 2024Trial
- A randomized clinical trial to assess feasibility, acceptability and preliminary effects of telehealth-delivered cognitive-behavioral therapy for perceived social isolation among individuals with opioid use disorders.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2024Trial
- Amplification of Positivity Treatment for Anxiety and Depression: A Randomized Experimental Therapeutics Trial Targeting Social Reward Sensitivity to Enhance Social Connectedness.Biological psychiatry · 2024Trial
- Large-Scale Neuroimaging and Genetic Analyses of the Human Thalamus in Loneliness.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2026Article
- Relationships Between Loneliness, Common Mental Disorders, and Lifetime Suicidality in a Korean Adult Population.Psychiatry investigation · 2026Article
416 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Authors and funding
5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
In 1978, when the Task Panel report to the US President's Commission on Mental Health emphasized the importance of improving health care and easing the pain of those suffering from emotional distress syndromes including loneliness, few anticipated that this issue would still need to be addressed 40 years later. A meta-analysis (Masi et al., 2011) on the efficacy of treatments to reduce loneliness identified a need for well-controlled randomized clinical trials focusing on the rehabilitation of maladaptive social cognition. We review assessments of loneliness and build on this meta-analysis to discuss the efficacy of various treatments for loneliness. With the advances made over the past 5 years in the identification of the psychobiological and pharmaceutical mechanisms associated with loneliness and maladaptive social cognition, there is increasing evidence for the potential efficacy of integrated interventions that combine (social) cognitive behavioral therapy with short-term adjunctive pharmacological treatments.
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