A systematic review of loneliness and social isolation scales used in epidemics and pandemics

The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened social isolation and loneliness. There is a lack of consensus on rating scales to measure these constructs. Our objectives were to identify commonly used loneliness and social isolation scales over the last two decades and test their user characteristics. 7928 ar...

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Autores principales: Das, Aparna, Padala, Kalpana P., Crawford, Christina G., Teo, Alan, Mendez, Diana M., Phillips, Olive A., Wright, Benjamin C., House, Samuel, Padala, Prasad R.
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Publicado: Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8502233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34644661
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114217
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author Das, Aparna
Padala, Kalpana P.
Crawford, Christina G.
Teo, Alan
Mendez, Diana M.
Phillips, Olive A.
Wright, Benjamin C.
House, Samuel
Padala, Prasad R.
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened social isolation and loneliness. There is a lack of consensus on rating scales to measure these constructs. Our objectives were to identify commonly used loneliness and social isolation scales over the last two decades and test their user characteristics. 7928 articles were searched in PubMed/MEDLINE, CINAHL, Web of Science, and APA PsychINFO databases. 41 articles were included based on study criteria. Among fourteen scales reported, UCLA 3-item loneliness scale was found to be most commonly used. The scale is specifically developed for telephone use and is the fastest taking less than a minute for self-administration.
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spelling pubmed-85022332021-10-12 A systematic review of loneliness and social isolation scales used in epidemics and pandemics Das, Aparna Padala, Kalpana P. Crawford, Christina G. Teo, Alan Mendez, Diana M. Phillips, Olive A. Wright, Benjamin C. House, Samuel Padala, Prasad R. Psychiatry Res Article The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened social isolation and loneliness. There is a lack of consensus on rating scales to measure these constructs. Our objectives were to identify commonly used loneliness and social isolation scales over the last two decades and test their user characteristics. 7928 articles were searched in PubMed/MEDLINE, CINAHL, Web of Science, and APA PsychINFO databases. 41 articles were included based on study criteria. Among fourteen scales reported, UCLA 3-item loneliness scale was found to be most commonly used. The scale is specifically developed for telephone use and is the fastest taking less than a minute for self-administration. Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press 2021-12 2021-10-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8502233/ /pubmed/34644661 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114217 Text en Published by Elsevier B.V. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Das, Aparna
Padala, Kalpana P.
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Wright, Benjamin C.
House, Samuel
Padala, Prasad R.
A systematic review of loneliness and social isolation scales used in epidemics and pandemics
title A systematic review of loneliness and social isolation scales used in epidemics and pandemics
title_full A systematic review of loneliness and social isolation scales used in epidemics and pandemics
title_fullStr A systematic review of loneliness and social isolation scales used in epidemics and pandemics
title_full_unstemmed A systematic review of loneliness and social isolation scales used in epidemics and pandemics
title_short A systematic review of loneliness and social isolation scales used in epidemics and pandemics
title_sort systematic review of loneliness and social isolation scales used in epidemics and pandemics
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8502233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34644661
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114217
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