Great to see this paper by PhD student Sharon Eager 'Young people’s views on the acceptability and feasibility of loneliness interventions' with a great summary in the thread Loneliness & SI in Mental Health research network UCL Mental Health Sciences MScs

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5. Scope of intervention may need adaptation for different loneliness types.

6. Interventions should promote autonomy. May be useful to combine features.

Big thank you to co-authors: Ellie Pearce, Sonia Johnson, Alexandra Pitman, Manuela Uribe and Pam Qualter. UCL Psychiatry. (4/4)

2. Interventions should be enjoyable and use positive, problem-solving language.

3. Group-based, flexible, and brief but regular sessions were preferred.

4. Technology use in interventions offers accessibility and anonymity, but potentially less fulfilling. (3/4)

We asked them about three different types of loneliness interventions: improving social and emotional skills, opportunities for social interaction/support, and changing thinking patters.

MAIN FINDINGS:
1. Different interventions may best suit different stages of loneliness (2/4)

Happy to (finally!) share the publication from my UCL Mental Health Sciences MScs dissertation.

We conducted interviews with young people with experience of loneliness to discuss different types of loneliness interventions. Loneliness & SI in Mental Health research network

link.springer.com/article/10.118… | BMC Psychiatry (1/4)

Young people's views about what kinds of loneliness intervention are likely to work for them in which contexts: very interesting findings in this new Loneliness & SI in Mental Health research network UCL Mental Health Sciences MScs led by Sharon Eager

link.springer.com/article/10.118…

1/5 Together with British Red Cross 🧡, in January 2023 we published the Loneliness at Work report. We wanted to learn how different groups experience loneliness in the workplace.

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4/5 Women experienced chronic loneliness more often than men at 6.8% compared with 6.1% of men.

3/5 Young people, again, were the group most likely to be experiencing chronic loneliness more than any other age group.

2/5 In the UK, 3.6 million people experienced chronic loneliness in 2023. Chronic loneliness is where feelings of loneliness and isoloation go on for long periods of time.

1/5 Our analysis of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) loneliness statistics in 2023 is out and there is still much to be done to #EndLoneliness

Evidence shows that young people are one of the most at-risk groups for experiencing loneliness.

Our data indicates that many young people don't feel they are close to others.

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