Objectives This study aimed to examine the validity and reliability of a rapid, clinically
administrable loneliness screening tool for older adults called the ALONE scale. Design This …

Aim To develop and initially validate the Loneliness Inventory for Older Adults. Design Scale
development and evaluation. Methods This was a two‐phase study. In phase 1, the initial …

ABSTRACT Goals: The UCLA LS-R is the most extensively used scale to assess loneliness.
However, few studies examine the scale's use on older individuals. The goal of the study is …

Age differences in the prevalence of loneliness have been a key focus among researchers,
practitioners, and policy makers. However, the degree to which those reflect genuine …

Objective To examine the measurement properties and factor structure of the short version of
the Revised University of California Los Angeles (R-UCLA) loneliness scale from the Health …

Background Loneliness is a highly relevant public mental health issue. This work presents
the validation of a single-item measure of loneliness and its subjective experience:“I am …

This systematic review assessed the psychometric properties and the cross-cultural
adaptation of the University of California and Los Angeles Loneliness scale (UCLA-LS) in …

Background: Loneliness co-occurs alongside many mental health problems and is
associated with poorer treatment outcomes. It could therefore be a phenomenon of interest …

The aim of the current investigation was to compare a direct versus an indirect approach for
measuring loneliness by comparing the one-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies …

Several measures that assess loneliness have been developed for adults. Across three
studies, we investigated psychometric features of scores of different versions of the Rasch …