Protocol for a feasibility randomized trial of a social support intervention plus usual care versus usual care, targeting patients treated for cardiac disease who experience loneliness.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In patients treated for cardiac disease, loneliness is known to contribute negatively to health behavior, health outcome, and increase risk of cardiac and all-cause mortality. Even so, in health care research, social support interventional studies targeting patients who experience loneliness are lacking.

Aim

To determine the feasibility of an individually structured social support intervention targeting patients treated for cardiac disease who experience loneliness.

Design

A feasibility study based on randomized clinical trial design with 1:1 randomization to a 6-month social support program, plus usual care (intervention) versus usual care, (i.e., regular guidelines-based follow-up).

Intervention

Patients classified as high risk lonely according t

SUBMITTER: Blako M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9900972 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature