ReviewAmerican journal of lifestyle medicine
The Connection Prescription: Using the Power of Social Interactions and the Deep Desire for Connectedness to Empower Health and Wellness.
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64 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 170 citations in OpenAlex.
- Digital nudging techniques for behaviour change in lifestyle medicine: a scoping review.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Pooled it
- How do people living with psychotic disorders access and use information and communication technology: a scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Intergenerational engagement with Asian residents in long-term care facilities: a mixed method systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Health effects of social connectedness in older adults living in congregate long-term care settings: A systematic review of quantitative and qualitative evidence.International journal of older people nursing · 2023Pooled it
- Creatively Adapting Touch-Based Practices to the Web Format During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Pooled it
- Patterns of Suicide and Suicidal Ideation in Relation to Social Isolation and Loneliness in Newcomer Populations: A Review.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2023Pooled it
- LGBTQ+ Loss and Grief in a Cis-Heteronormative Pandemic: A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis of the COVID-19 Literature.Qualitative health research · 2022Pooled it
- The Use of Music to Manage Burnout in Nurses: A Systematic Review.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2022Pooled it
- Understanding loneliness: a systematic review of the impact of social prescribing initiatives on loneliness.Perspectives in public health · 2021Pooled it
- Hospital Care at Home for Adults Living in Rural Settings: A Qualitative Evaluation.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2026Trial
- Older Persons' Participation in Life-Enhancement Activities in a Long-Term Care Facility: A Mixed-Methods Observational Study.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Observational
- Social connectedness as a pathway towards climate resilience: exploring climate change scepticism with machine learning approaches and mediation regression models.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Loneliness, affectivity and psychological distress in people living alone during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cluster analysis.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2026Article
- The Therapeutic Home Environment for Chronic Diseases: A Transdisciplinary Ecosystem for Achieving Migraine Freedom and Managing Comorbid Anxiety, Insomnia, and Chronic Pain.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Social frailty, functional ability and social capital: a study among urban slum older adults in Tamil Nadu, India-convergent parallel mixed method study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Learning Modalities During COVID-19 and Adolescent Mental Health in North Carolina.The Journal of school health · 2026Article
- Building trauma-informed and equitable capacity for city programs: enhancing workforce well-being and service quality in Boston.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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- Forging Online Community Among People in Recovery From Substance Use: Natural Language Processing and Deep-Learning Analysis of The Phoenix App User-Generated Data.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2025Article
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Abstract
Social connection is a pillar of lifestyle medicine. Humans are wired to connect, and this connection affects our health. From psychological theories to recent research, there is significant evidence that social support and feeling connected can help people maintain a healthy body mass index, control blood sugars, improve cancer survival, decrease cardiovascular mortality, decrease depressive symptoms, mitigate posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, and improve overall mental health. The opposite of connection, social isolation, has a negative effect on health and can increase depressive symptoms as well as mortality. Counseling patients on increasing social connections, prescribing connection, and inquiring about quantity and quality of social interactions at routine visits are ways that lifestyle medicine specialists can use connection to help patients to add not only years to their life but also health and well-being to those years.
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