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NCT04733898
Social Health Games: The Use of Online Games to Decrease Loneliness in Older Adults
NA trial testing SamenSpelen.app in Loneliness in 76 participants. Terminated before completion.
28 March 2022
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Radboud University Medical Center |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Terminated |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | single |
| Primary purpose | treatment |
| Enrollment | 76 |
| Start date | 1 April 2021 |
| Primary completion | 28 March 2022 |
| Estimated completion | 28 March 2022 |
| Sites | 1 location across Netherlands |
Drugs / interventions tested
- SamenSpelen.app
- FijnSpelen.app
Conditions studied
- Loneliness — all drugs for Loneliness →
Sponsor
Radboud University Medical Center
Who can join
65 and older, any sex, with Loneliness. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
This study examines whether social platform games are effective in expanding the social network and decreasing the experienced levels of loneliness in older adults. The newly developed social games will be compared to non-personal games and not playing games.
Publications & conference data
1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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A Digital Gaming Intervention to Strengthen the Social Networks of Older Dutch Adults: Mixed Methods Process Evaluation of a Digitally Conducted Randomized Controlled Trial.
Janssen J, Châtel B, Den Heijer N, Tieben R, et al · · 2023 · cited 2× · PMID 37862093 · DOI 10.2196/45173
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- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04733898 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Radboud University Medical Center
- Last refreshed: 31 March 2023
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