{"id":225775,"date":"2021-03-27T08:32:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T22:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.relationships.org.au\/?post_type=document&#038;p=225775"},"modified":"2021-10-27T08:33:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T22:33:33","slug":"evidence-that-loneliness-can-be-reduced-by-a-whole-of-community-intervention-to-increase-neighbourhood-identification","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.relationships.org.au\/document\/evidence-that-loneliness-can-be-reduced-by-a-whole-of-community-intervention-to-increase-neighbourhood-identification\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence that loneliness can be reduced by a whole-of-community intervention to increase neighbourhood identification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relationships Australia is pleased to announce that our research conducted in collaboration with the Australian National University has been published demonstrating that involvement in Neighbour Day leads to a tangible and sustained reduction in loneliness. Longitudinal research published in <i>Social Science and Medicine<\/i>\u00a0confirms that six months after hosting a Neighbour Day event, hosts continue to report a significant increase in their neighbourhood social identification. This increased neighbourhood identification leads to greater social cohesion, improved wellbeing and reduced loneliness.<\/p>\n<p>Reference:<\/p>\n<p>Fong, P., Cruwys, T., Robinson, S., Haslam, A., Mance. &amp; Fisher, C. (2021).\u00a0<strong>Evidence that loneliness can be reduced by a whole-of-community intervention to increase neighbourhood identification.<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Social Science and Medicine.\u00a0<\/em>Vol 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relationships Australia is pleased to announce that our research conducted in collaboration with the Australian National University has been published demonstrating that involvement in Neighbour Day leads to a tangible and sustained reduction in loneliness. Longitudinal research published in Social Science and Medicine\u00a0confirms that six months after hosting a Neighbour Day event, hosts continue to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[39,27],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-225775","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","category-journal-article","category-research","tag-neighbour-day"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relationships.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/225775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relationships.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relationships.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relationships.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.relationships.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/225775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225777,"href":"https:\/\/www.relationships.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/225775\/revisions\/225777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relationships.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relationships.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relationships.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}