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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021

Prior Social Contact and Mental Health Trajectories during COVID-19: Neighborhood

Daniel R Y Gan, John R Best

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. "Shelter-in-Place" Policies and Changes in Caregiving for Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026
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  3. Associations of Homebound State in Older Adults With Neighborhood Social Cohesion.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2026
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  10. Neighborhood Makes or Breaks Active Ageing? Findings from Cross-Sectional Path Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Daniel R Y GanGerontology Research Centre, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC V6N 5K3, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7920-9231
John R BestGerontology Research Centre, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC V6N 5K3, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-5775-7053

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Social networking protects mental health during a crisis. Prior contact with social organizations, friends, and non-friend neighbors may be associated with better trajectories of loneliness, depression and subjective memory during COVID-19. Regression analysis was conducted using longitudinal data from a representative sample of

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COVID-19FriendsAgedHumansLonelinessMental HealthPandemicsSARS-CoV-2Social Isolationcohesionemergency preparednessneighborhoodsocial isolationsocial supportstructural equation modeling

Identifiers

PMID34639300
PMCPMC8507683

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