A weekly account of what happened in social health: research, policy, practice, and funding calls that are still open. Written for the LONELY-EU network and open to anyone.
Five of this week's papers ran into the same wall from different directions. A systematic review of green prescribing could not pool a single outcome. A meta-analysis that triples the odds of a poor depression outcome turns out to rest on four…
Four of this week's items came apart when someone opened the document underneath them. A feasibility trial that reports meeting its progression criteria turns out, against its own registered thresholds, to have hit amber on the criterion that counts recruitment properly. A…
Set two of this week's events side by side. On Wednesday the European Commission proposed a Regulation that would prohibit design features which simulate interpersonal relationships with children in ways likely to create emotional dependency. On Monday, a Danish evaluation of a…
Three of this week's strongest papers report an absence. A preregistered trial of a university wellbeing app moved loneliness by about a seventh of a standard deviation and failed to reproduce its own earlier findings on belonging. A mediation analysis of the…
No trials this week. I went looking and there were none. A date-bounded search of the last seven days for randomised or controlled intervention studies of loneliness, social isolation or social connection returned twenty-six records, and all twenty-six were conference abstracts, observational…
Hi all, This is the first of what I hope becomes a weekly habit. The idea is simple and slightly stolen: every week, one post that tells you what actually happened in social health — research, policy, practice, and money you can…
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