The feasibility of health professional student delivered social visits for stroke survivors with loneliness.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine the feasibility of a social phone call program to address social isolation and loneliness in stroke survivors.

Materials and methods

We paired 14 lonely community-living stroke survivors with 14 health professional students for 6-weekly unstructured social phone calls. Feasibility data and measures of social isolation, loneliness and other psychosocial metrics were collected pre- and post-intervention. Students journaled following each unstructured call to capture the informal conversation and their sentiments.

Results

Sixty-two percent of the targeted sample was interested. Fourteen eligible and interested participants were enrolled. The 13 (93%) participants completing all calls and surveys were an average of 57 years old, 85% female, and 77% n

SUBMITTER: Burnett J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12802625 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature