A randomised controlled trial of the Nextdoor Kind Challenge: a study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community interventions are often promoted as a way of reducing loneliness and social isolation in our neighbourhoods. However, those community interventions are rarely examined within rigorous study designs. One strategy that holds the potential to reduce loneliness and can promote health and wellbeing is doing acts of kindness. The current study involves evaluating the impact of kindness acts on loneliness in community-dwelling individuals using an online social networking platform.

Methods

This study is made up of three randomised controlled trials conducted in three countries. Each randomised controlled trial has two arms (intervention vs waitlist control) and is designed to compare the effectiveness of the KIND challenge, which involves doing at least one act

SUBMITTER: Lim MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8339389 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature