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Humanoid Robot vs Treatment as Usual for Loneliness
NCT05423899 · Lady Davis Institute · Updated 16 April 2025
- What is being tested
- Grace Robot; Treatment as Usual
- For
- Loneliness; Depression; Stress; Anxiety; Quality of Life
- Kind of study
- Tests a treatment or device on volunteers. No drug phase (a device or procedure study).
- Who can join
- Ages 60 years and older. The full rules are on the registry page.
- Where
- Not stated
- When
- Starts or started 1 Sept 2022, ends 30 March 2023. Registered 21 June 2022.
- Results
- None posted yet.
In the researchers' words
The investigators are aiming to compare the effects of a humanoid robot intervention to treatment as usual, on loneliness and mental health outcomes in older adults living in long-term care, through an assessor-blinded randomized controlled trial.