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Video conferencing
— an intervention for emotional loneliness in long-term care | | Author(s) | Mary T Siniscarco, Cynthia Love-Williams, Sarah Burnett-Wolle |
| Journal title | Activities, Adaptation and Aging, vol 41, no 4, 2017 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, 2017 |
| Pages | pp 316-329 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Information technology ; Communication ; Residents [care homes] ; The Family ; Friends ; Loneliness ; Isolation ; Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Pilot ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Residents in long-term care report high rates of emotional loneliness. This American pilot study examined an intervention to address these feelings. A sample of eight residents used videoconferencing (Skype) to communicate with very close family and/or friends one or more times each week for two months. Wilcoxon matched pairs tests suggested that the intervention was not associated with significant changes in affective well-being. However, desirable changes in various aspects of social support were evident and should be explored in future research with a larger sample size. The logistics of implementing this videoconferencing study were extensive, and increasing the sample size would necessitate changes in research methods. Most notably, choice of the hardware as well as the availability of assistance to operate the hardware and software are aspects that need to be altered. Specific recommendations are made to facilitate future research and practice. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180126225 A |
| Classmark | UVB: U: KX: SJ: SX: DV: TP: KW: LHB: 4UC: 7T |
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