Improving social functioning and reducing social isolation and loneliness among people with enduring mental illness: Report of a randomised controlled trial of supported socialisation

Conclusions:
The intervention showed no statistical differences between the control and intervention groups on primary or secondary outcome measures. The stipend and the stipend plus volunteer partner led to an increase in recreational social functioning; a decrease in levels of social loneliness, in depression and in the proportion living within a vulnerable social network.

Source: International Journal of Social Psychiatry - April 23, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Sheridan, A. J., Drennan, J., Coughlan, B., O'Keeffe, D., Frazer, K., Kemple, M., Alexander, D., Howlin, F., Fahy, A., Kow, V., O'Callaghan, E. Tags: Articles Source Type: research