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  • Living alone and mental health: parallel analyses in UK longitudinal population surveys and electronic health records prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Author
    McElroy, Eoin; Herrett, Emily; Patel, Kishan; Piehlmaier, Dominik M.; di Gessa, Giorgio; Huggins, Charlotte F.; Green, Michael J.; Kwong, Alex S.F.; Thompson, Ellen J.; Zhu, Jingmin and 20 others
    Source
    BMJ Mental Health
    Type
    Journal article
    Published
    10 August 2023
  • Online ‘chats’: Fostering communitas and psychosocial support for people working across arts and play for health and wellbeing

    Author
    Warran, Katey; Wright, Laura H.V.
    Source
    Frontiers in Psychology
    Type
    Journal article
    Published
    24 July 2023
  • The role of financial security in loneliness or sadness among Medicare-enrolled cancer survivors during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Author
    Sarkar, Sayantani; Arakelyan, Stella; Choa, Elizabeth; Poghosyan, Hermine
    Source
    Journal of Geriatric Oncology
    Type
    Journal article
    Published
    24 April 2023
  • Psychosocial predictors of Covid-19 infection in UK Biobank

    Author
    Wauye, Victor M.; Ho, Frederick K.; Lyall, Donald M.
    Source
    Journal of Public Health
    Type
    Journal article
    Published
    12 April 2023
  • Probable COVID-19 infection is associated with subsequent poorer mental health and greater loneliness in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing study

    Author
    Wilding, Sarah; O'Connor, Daryl B.; Ferguson, Eamonn; Cleare, Seonaid; Wetherall, Karen; O'Carroll, Ronan E.; Robb, Kathryn A.; O'Connor, Rory C.
    Source
    Scientific Reports
    Type
    Journal article
    Published
    02 December 2022
  • The mediating role of loneliness on relations between face-to-face and virtual interactions and psychological well-being across age: a 21-day diary study

    Author
    Tsang, Vivian H.L.; Tse, Dwight; Chu, Li; Fung, Helene H.; Mai, Chunyan; Zhang, Hanyu
    Source
    International Journal of Behavioral Development
    Type
    Journal article
    Published
    20 October 2022
  • Information seeking, mental health and loneliness: Longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study

    Author
    Wilding, Sarah; O'Connor, Daryl B.; Ferguson, Eamonn; Wetherall, Karen; Cleare, Seonaid; O'Carroll, Ronan E.; Robb, Kathryn A.; O'Connor, Rory C.
    Source
    Psychiatry Research
    Type
    Journal article
    Published
    02 October 2022
  • Mental, physical, and cognitive wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: data from Scotland and Japan

    Author
    Ingram, Joanne; Hand, Christopher J.; Hijikata, Yuko; Maciejewski, Greg
    Source
    Journal of Open Psychology Data
    Type
    Journal article
    Published
    15 September 2022
  • ‘There’s something about admitting that you are lonely’ prevalence, impact and solutions to loneliness in terminal illness: An explanatory sequential multi-methods study

    Author
    Hanna, Jeffrey R.; McConnell, Tracey; Harrison, Craig; Patynowska, Katarzyna A.; Finucane, Anne M.; Hudson, Briony F.; Paradine, Sharon; MacCullagh, Angela; Reid, Joanne
    Source
    Palliative Medicine
    Type
    Journal article
    Published
    08 September 2022
  • Older people, loneliness, social isolation and technological mitigations: utilising experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic as we move forward

    Author
    Fawcett, Barbara; Karastoyanova, Konstantina
    Source
    British Journal of Social Work
    Type
    Journal article
    Published
    30 August 2022
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