Trial reportInternational journal of environmental research and public health2024
Reducing Loneliness through the Power of Practicing Together: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Online Dyadic Socio-Emotional vs. Mindfulness-Based Training.
Trial report in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 8 papers.
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Investigating the Effects of an Online Empathy-Compassion Dyad Intervention on Teacher Resilience, Mental Health, Social Emotions, Social Communication, and Interactions
The Edu:Social Health Care Project: Investigating the Effects of an Online Socio-emotional Dyad Intervention on Healthcare Students' Mental Health, Resilience, Social Competencies and Behaviors
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effects of a mindfulness-based intervention versus a social contact control in alleviating loneliness among older adults: a randomised controlled trial.BMJ mental health · 2026Trial
- Reducing neuroendocrine psychosocial stress response through socio-emotional dyadic but not mindfulness online training.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Trial
- Mindfulness as a mediator and moderator between interpersonal alienation and smartphone addiction among Taiwanese university students.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Havruta-structured dialogue as a social-emotional competence intervention: multi-stakeholder evidence on university students' mental health.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Digital bridges to social connection: A systematic review and meta-analysis of digital interventions for loneliness and social isolation.Internet interventions · 2025Review
- Synchronous Smiles and Hearts: Dyadic Meditations Enhance Closeness and Prosocial Behavior in Virtual and In-Person Settings.Mindfulness · 2025Article
- Gerontology in Public Health: A Scoping Review of Current Perspectives and Interventions.Cureus · 2024Article
- 10-Week Trajectories of Candidate Psychological Processes Differentially Predict Mental Health Gains from Online Dyadic versus Mindfulness Interventions: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
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Abstract
Loneliness has become a pressing topic, especially among young adults and during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a randomized controlled trial with 253 healthy adults, we evaluated the differential efficacy of two 10-week app-delivered mental training programs: one based on classic mindfulness and one on an innovative partner-based socio-emotional practice (Affect Dyad). We show that the partner-based training resulted in greater reductions in loneliness than the mindfulness-based training. This effect was shown on three measures of loneliness: general loneliness assessed with the 20-item UCLA Loneliness Scale, state loneliness queried over an 8-day ecological momentary assessment in participants' daily lives, and loneliness ratings required before and after daily practice. Our study provides evidence for the higher efficacy of a mental training approach based on a 12 min practice conducted with a partner in reducing loneliness and provides a novel, scalable online approach to reduce the increasing problem of loneliness in society.
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