Older and 'staying at home'during lockdown: informal care receipt during the COVID-19 pandemic amongst people aged 70 and over in the UK

M Evandrou, J Falkingham, M Qin, A Vlachantoni - SocArXiv, 2020 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
On 23 March 2020 the UK went into lockdown in an unprecedented step to attempt to limit
the spread of coronavirus. Government advice at that time was that all older people aged 70 …

Mental health, quality of life, wellbeing, loneliness and use of social media in a time of social distancing during the COVID-19 outbreak. A cross-country comparative …

AØ Geirdal, M Ruffolo, J Leung, H Thygesen… - Journal of Mental …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Background The COVID-19 outbreak raised questions about how people experience their
mental health, quality of life (QoL), wellbeing and loneliness in the context of social …

Examining temporal interactions between loneliness and depressive symptoms and the mediating role of emotion regulation difficulties among UK residents during …

JM Groarke, E McGlinchey… - Journal of Affective …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Longitudinal studies examining the temporal association between mental
health outcomes during the COVID-19 outbreak are needed. It is important to determine how …

A global longitudinal study examining social restrictions severity on loneliness, social anxiety, and depression

MH Lim, P Qualter, L Thurston, R Eres… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Purpose Social restrictions and government-mandated lockdowns implemented worldwide
to kerb the SARS-CoV-2 virus disrupted our social interactions, behaviours, and routines …

Loneliness and its concomitants among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic

M Frenkel-Yosef, R Maytles, A Shrira - International psychogeriatrics, 2020 - cambridge.org
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, older adults may face with what some have called a “loneliness
epidemic”(Palgi et al., 2020). Complications from loneliness can include morbidity and death …

Socially Connected during COVID-19: Online social connections mediate the relationship between loneliness and positive coping strategies

KA Moore, E March - Journal of Stress, Trauma, Anxiety, and …, 2022 - journal.star-society.org
Abstract The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, spread across the world in early 2020. Many
countries imposed social isolation restrictions where people were confined to their homes …

Living alone during COVID-19: Social contact and emotional well-being among older adults

KL Fingerman, YT Ng, S Zhang, K Britt… - The Journals of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Objective The COVID-19 outbreak and associated physical distancing measures altered the
social world for most older adults, but people who live alone may have been …

Loneliness during COVID-19: Development and influencing factors

C Lampraki, A Hoffman, A Roquet, DS Jopp - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
In early pandemic waves, when vaccination against COVID-19 was not yet an option,
distancing and reduced social contact were the most effective measures to slow down the …

Loneliness and COVID-19 preventive behaviours among Japanese adults

A Stickley, T Matsubayashi, M Ueda - Journal of Public Health, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background There is some evidence that loneliness may be linked to poorer health
behaviours. Despite this, there has been little research to date on the relationship between …

[HTML][HTML] The burden of loneliness: Implications of the social determinants of health during COVID-19

RJ McQuaid, SML Cox, A Ogunlana, N Jaworska - Psychiatry research, 2021 - Elsevier
This study sought to examine if mental health issues, namely depression and anxiety
symptoms, and loneliness were experienced differently according to various demographic …