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Lonesome no more? A two-year follow-up of internet-administered cognitive behavioral therapy for loneliness.
Article in Internet interventions, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05687162 (Brief Internet Interventions to Support Mental Health), which is not on this map. Cited by 25 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Brief Internet Interventions to Support Mental Health
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- [Internet-based self-help for loneliness-a systematic review].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2024Pooled it
- What works in interventions targeting loneliness: a systematic review of intervention characteristics.BMC public health · 2023Pooled it
- Can we mitigate the psychological impacts of social isolation using behavioural activation? Long-term results of the UK BASIL urgent public health COVID-19 pilot randomised controlled trial and living systematic review.Evidence-based mental health · 2022Pooled it
- A randomized controlled trial comparing brief online self-guided interventions for loneliness.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2025Trial
- 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
- Elevated prodromal psychotic symptoms lead to impaired social functioning via loneliness: A longitudinal mediation study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- Development of a Conceptual Model of Loneliness in Verbal Autistic Adults Using Qualitative Content Analyses.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Loneliness as a Public Health Challenge: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis to Inform Policy and Practice.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Review
- Beyond clinical risk: tackling loneliness through a population health lens.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The Long-Lasting Effect of Multidisciplinary Interventions for Emotional and Social Loneliness in Older Community-Dwelling Individuals: A Systematic Review.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Review
- Why So Lonely? The Direct and Indirect Associations between Developmental Trajectories of Fear of Negative Evaluation, Prosocial Behavior and Loneliness in Adolescence.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2024Article
- Updates in Parkinson's Disease Integrative Therapies: an Evidence-Based Review.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2023Review
- Scheduled Support Versus Support on Demand in Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder: Randomized Controlled Trial.Clinical psychology in Europe · 2023Article
- Do loneliness and social exclusion breed paranoia? An experience sampling investigation across the psychosis continuum.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2023Article
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- Exploring links between social identity, emotion regulation, and loneliness in those with and without a history of mental illness.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2022Article
- Evaluating the Efficacy of a Guided and Unguided Internet-Based Self-help Intervention for Chronic Loneliness: Protocol for a 3-Arm Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Loneliness and Pain Catastrophizing Among Individuals with Chronic Pain: The Mediating Role of Depression.Journal of pain research · 2022Article
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Abstract
The current study sought to investigate the long-term effects of an internet-administered programme based on CBT principles for which the initial efficacy has been reported in Käll, Jägholm, et al. (In press). Seventy-three participants who were recruited on the basis of experiencing frequent and prolonged loneliness were contacted to complete questionnaires measuring loneliness, quality of life, and symptoms of psychopathology two years after the conclusion of the initial treatment period. Additional items regarding use of the treatment techniques and strategies contained in the programme during the follow-up period was included. In total, 44 participants provided data for the loneliness measure at follow-up. The outcome data were analyzed with a piecewise mixed effects model to provide estimates of change for the continuous measures. Linear multiple regression analysis was used to investigate the relationship between use of treatment techniques and reliable change on the primary outcome measure. The results showed decreases in loneliness during the follow-up period for the sample as a whole. Additionally, an increase in quality of life and a decrease in social anxiety were noted, but no significant changes of depressive symptoms or generalized anxiety. Effect sizes for the observed changes from baseline to follow-up were in the moderate to large range for all measures. Reported use of the treatment techniques was not significantly related to reliable change in loneliness after the two-year period. In conclusion, the results of the study support the utility of internet-based CBT targeting loneliness and indicate that the benefits from the intervention can be enduring.
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