ArticleThe American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry2023
Association Between Types of Loneliness and Risks of Functional Disability in Older Men and Women: A Prospective Analysis.
Article in The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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.
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.
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- Perceived health exposure to mega sporting event and depressive symptoms in older adults: the mediating roles of physical activity and loneliness.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Latent classes of frailty and their association with intrinsic capacity inolder cancer survivors: A study under the healthy aging paradigm.Global health & medicine · 2026Article
- Loneliness and cognitive function among Chinese older adults: multiple mediating effects of activities of daily living and anxiety.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The Habit of Eating Vegetables First Is Linked with a Lower Risk of Diabetic Retinopathy and Nephropathy: Cross-Sectional Study in Japanese Diabetic Patients.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2026Article
- Article
- Depressive symptoms partially mediate the relationship between psychosocial factors and epigenetic age acceleration in a multi-racial/ethnic sample of older adults.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2025Article
- Lost in Thought or Just Lonely? Everyday Cognitive Competence in Middle Adulthood.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- Do Higher Levels of Lifetime Victimization Predict an Earlier Onset of First IADL Limitation in Later Life?The Gerontologist · 2025Article
- The long-term impact of childhood peer relationships on disability in later life: Causal mediation evidence from older Chinese adults.SSM - population health · 2025Article
- Changes in Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Social Support: A Gender-Disaggregated Analysis of Their Associations With Dementia and Cognitive Decline in Older Adults.International journal of geriatric psychiatry · 2025Article
- Psychosocial burdens in early- versus late-onset dementia: analysis of discrimination, stress, and loneliness in the All of Us Research Program.Innovation in aging · 2025Article
- Social isolation, loneliness, and functional disability in Chinese older women and men: a longitudinal cross-lag analysis.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Loneliness in Seriously Ill Nursing Home Residents During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of palliative medicine · 2024Article
- Association of Loneliness with Functional and Cognitive Status in Minor and Major Neurocognitive Disorders.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Loneliness Trajectories and Chronic Loneliness Around the World.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024Article
- The Role of Functional Deficits, Depression, and Cognitive Symptoms in the Perceived Loneliness of Older Adults in Mexico City.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Mediating roles of activities of daily living and depression on the relationship between sleep quality and health-related quality of life.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Loneliness shapes disparities in healthy life expectancy: a multi-state analysis from China.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Associations of social isolation and loneliness with the onset of insomnia symptoms among middle-aged and older adults in the United States: A population-based cohort study.Psychiatry research · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
objectiveTo examine the association between types of loneliness (transient, incident, and chronic) and the risk of functional disability.
methodsData were from the Health and Retirement Study 2006/2008-2016/2018. A total of 7,148 adults aged ≥50 was included. Functional status was measured by activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). Loneliness was assessed using the 3-item UCLA Loneliness Scale. We defined loneliness as no/transient/incident/chronic loneliness based on the pattern and duration of loneliness across 2006/2008 and 2010/2012. We applied multivariate Cox proportional hazard models with the new-onset ADL/IADL disability as outcome.
resultsOverall, 69.3% respondents showed no loneliness; while 10.3%, 8.9%, and 11.5% showed transient, incident, and chronic loneliness, respectively. A total of 1,298 (18.16%) and 1,260 (17.63%) functionally normal respondents developed ADL and IADL disability during 36,294 person-years of follow-up, respectively. After adjusting for socio-demographic, behavioral, and health factors, chronic loneliness was associated with higher risks of ADL (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.37, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.16-1.63, p <0.001, χ
conclusionChronic loneliness, rather than transient loneliness, is an independent risk factor for functional disability in middle-aged and older adults, especially for women.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.