A Pilot Digital Intervention Targeting Loneliness in Youth Mental Health.

ABSTRACT: Background: Loneliness is an emerging issue for young people, but yet many interventions to address loneliness in this group focus on providing social opportunities. While these sorts of interventions may appear to increase social connections, loneliness is more related to quality rather than quantity of social relationships. Thus, interventions addressing loneliness should focus on maximizing the quality of current relationships. Together with youth consumers both with mental ill health and those without, we developed a digital smartphone application (app) called +Connect. The 6-week program delivers positive psychology content designed to improve relationship quality. We tested the acceptability, feasibility, and safety of the program in lonely young people with or without a mental healt

SUBMITTER: Lim MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6716464 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature