Recruiting

Social Activities

Sponsor:

Endeavor Health

Code:

NCT07708844

Conditions

Loneliness

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 55+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Prescribing of community activities; at least 2 hours per week

Study Details

Brief summary:

The goal of this early phase clinical trial is to determine the impact of participation in planned social activities among adults 55 years of age or older, who report feelings of loneliness. The main questions the study aims to answer are:

  • With the availability of a personalized community activity plan, will patients with loneliness participate in two hours of social activity each week?
  • Will 2 hours/week of planned social activities in the community reduce individual reports of loneliness? Participants will meet with a community coordinator to identify community activities of interest to them and then participate, in-person or virtually, in these activities over a 6 month period. Patients will complete a series of surveys at the start of the study and then at 1, 3 and 6 months later.

Conditions

Loneliness

Study ID

NCT07708844

Start date

May 1, 2026

Status verified date

Jul, 2026

Completion date

May 1, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Mar 31, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 55+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patients 55 years of age or older attending an outpatient visit at an Endeavor Health primary care practice site in Evanston, IL.;
  • Screened positive for loneliness (often, some of the time, or occasionally) using the one-item Loneliness Screener;
  • Able to provide informed consent for study participation;
  • Speaks and understands English language.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Prisoners, pregnant women, children
  • Persons those who are determined to be unable to provide consent
  • Non-English speakers

Study Design

Enrollment

50 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Social Prescription

Personalized Social Prescriptions will be determined from a broad menu of activities available in the community.

Interventions

Prescribing of community activities; at least 2 hours per week

Personalized Social Prescriptions will be determined from a broad menu of activities available in the community.

Primary outcome measure

  • Change in Loneliness score [ Time Frame: 6 months ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Susan G. Fisher, MS, PhD

224-364-7312Susan.Fisher@EndeavorHealth.org

Shannah Mwanda, MPH

224-364-7459Shannah.Mwanda@Endeavorhealth.org

Locations

Research Institute

Recruiting

Evanston, Illinois, United States, 60201

Contacts

Susan G Fisher, PhD

224-364-7312Susan.Fisher@EndeavorHealth.org

Michael Caplan, MD

847-570-1266Michael.Caplan@Endeavorhealth.org

Principal Investigator:

Susan Fisher, PhD

More Information

Sponsor

Endeavor Health

Last update posted

Jul 17, 2026

Last verified

Jul, 2026

Keywords

  • Loneliness

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-09. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Endeavor Health on 2026-07-17.