Effects of a mindfulness-based intervention versus a social contact control in alleviating loneliness among older adults: a randomised controlled trial.

BMJ Ment Health · 2026 · PMC12863357 · PMID 41628950

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marginally significantp=0.05actually significant

Moderation analysis indicated a marginally significant moderating effect of marital status on the intervention’s impact on overall loneliness at T3, with results favouring the MBOA group (p=0.05).

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marginally non-significantp<0.1so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

For interactions involving categorical demographic variables that reached statistical significance or were marginally non-significant (p<0.1), subgroup analyses were conducted for each category to assess between-group differences.

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a decreasing trendno p-value reported

MBOA participants reported reduced depressive symptoms and a decreasing trend in anxiety at 6 months compared with SCC.

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

showed a trendno p-value reported

The MBOA group showed a trend of longer-term improvement in loneliness at T3, but the modest magnitude of change did not reach statistical significance compared with the SCC group, in which no such trend was observed.

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