How effective are volunteers at supporting people in their last year of life? A pragmatic randomised wait-list trial in palliative care (ELSA).

BMC Med · 2016 · PMC5146890 · PMID 27931214

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

We saw that the rate of reduction of quality of life, loneliness and perceived social support was less steep in the intervention group, but this did not reach statistical significance.

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While this difference was not statistically significant, a clear trend was observed, showing that those in the immediate group did not deteriorate at the same rate as those in the wait-list group ( b = 0.84, 95% CI, –2.24 to 3.92 vs. b = –3.14, 95% CI, –6.23 to –0.05) (Table 3 ).

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