Engagement and Adherence

What the evidence says about social disconnection, uptake of preventive care, outreach and staying in a program.

• Are lonely people harder to retain in a program once they enrol?

  The research corpus does not contain any studies evaluating whether loneliness predicts program retention once a person has enrolled.

• Do socially disconnected people actually want to be contacted by their care team?

  The research excerpts provided for this query do not contain information regarding whether socially disconnected people want to be contacted by their care team.

• Do socially disconnected people skip care?

  The research corpus does not contain evidence that socially disconnected people skip care in a general sense.

• Does addressing loneliness reduce the cost of care?

  The research corpus does not contain evidence that addressing loneliness reduces the cost of care.

• Does loneliness predict whether someone engages with a care management or telephonic outreach program?

  No published study currently exists to answer whether loneliness predicts engagement with care management or telephonic outreach programs.

• Does the way a message is worded change whether a socially disconnected person acts on it?

  The research corpus does not contain evidence to support the claim that socially disconnected people respond better to specific message framing in a health context.

• If someone did not respond to outreach once, will trying again the same way work?

  The provided research excerpts do not contain information regarding repeat outreach or the effectiveness of identical communication attempts.

• Is resistance to help the same thing as disengagement?

  The research corpus does not contain evidence to support the claim that lonely or socially disconnected people disengage from care.

• Which predicts resistance to outreach better, loneliness or social isolation?

  The research corpus does not contain information to answer whether loneliness or social isolation better predicts resistance to outreach.

• Why would someone who is lonely refuse help they clearly need?

  The research excerpts provided do not cover why a lonely person might refuse help.