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ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2021

Do Words Matter? Detecting Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults Using Natural Language Processing.

Varsha D Badal, Camille Nebeker, Kaoru Shinkawa, Yasunori Yamada, Kelly E Rentscher, Ho-Cheol Kim, Ellen E Lee

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Article in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Varsha D BadalDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States.
Camille NebekerHerbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States.
Kaoru ShinkawaDigital Health, IBM Research-Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Yasunori YamadaDigital Health, IBM Research-Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Kelly E RentscherCousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Ho-Cheol KimAI and Cognitive Software, IBM Research-Almaden, San Jose, CA, United States.
Ellen E LeeDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States.
IBM Research - Tokyo · JPInstitute on Aging · USIBM Research - Almaden · USSalk Institute for Biological Studies · USUniversity of California, San Diego · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

artificial intelligencegenderlinguistic featureslonelinessNLPsocial connectednessSocial support

Identifiers

PMID34867518
PMCPMC8635064
OpenAlexW3211954015

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