Rationale Increasingly, loneliness is being recognised as a serious problem with detrimental
effects on health, as well as on social cohesion and community trust. To effectively tackle this …

People feel lonely when their social needs are not met by the quantity and quality of their
social relationships. Most research has focused on individual-level predictors of loneliness …

Social isolation and loneliness are serious yet underappreciated public health risks that
affect a significant portion of the older adult population. Approximately one-quarter of …

Abstract The BBC Loneliness Experiment provided a unique opportunity to examine
differences in the experience of lonelines across cultures, age, and gender, and the …

Social isolation and loneliness among older people Page 1 ADVOCACY BRIEF: Social
isolation and loneliness among older people Page 2 Acknowledgements The development of …

Loneliness is a common experience in adolescence and is related to a range of mental
health problems. Such feelings may have been increased by social distancing measures …

This study sought to examine if mental health issues, namely depression and anxiety
symptoms, and loneliness were experienced differently according to various demographic …

Loneliness is associated with mental health and thus is of particular concern in the COVID-
19 pandemic, due to physical distancing restrictions and shelter-in-place orders. The current …

Background: The mitigation strategies employed against the COVID-19 pandemic have
severe mental health consequences. In particular, as a result of the social distancing …

Background Loneliness is common among youth and is associated with poor physical and
mental health, and poor educational outcomes. To date, there have been no meta‐analyses …