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Trial reportJournal of medical Internet research2026

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.

Hiroshi Murayama, Mai Takase

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Journal of medical Internet research, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Hiroshi MurayamaResearch Team for Social Participation and Healthy Aging, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Geriatrics and Gerontology, 35-2 Sakae-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-0015, Japan, 81 3-3964-3241.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2991-7763
Mai TakaseResearch Team for Social Participation and Healthy Aging, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Geriatrics and Gerontology, 35-2 Sakae-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-0015, Japan, 81 3-3964-3241.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0114-9205

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Unlabelled: 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.

Indexed as

LonelinessRoboticsAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHumansJapanMaleSecondary Data AnalysisSocial Isolationdigital social robotslonelinessolder adults living alonerandomized controlled trialsecondary analysissocial contactsocial isolation

Identifiers

PMID42887010
PMCPMC13674999

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