ArticleBMC public health2023
The state of loneliness and social isolation research: current knowledge and future directions.
Article in BMC public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07319663 (Quasi-experimental Community-Based Social Connection Intervention Program to Improve Cardiovascular and Brain Health in Older Adults Living in Rural Ecuador), which is not on this map. Cited by 54 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Quasi-experimental Community-Based Social Connection Intervention Program to Improve Cardiovascular and Brain Health in Older Adults Living in Rural Ecuador
Who cites it
54 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Increasing loneliness in Japan, 1983-2023: a cross-temporal meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Social Relationships and Tooth Loss in Adults Aged 60 Years and Older: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Community dentistry and oral epidemiology · 2025Pooled it
- The Assessment of Social Isolation and Loneliness in Cancer Patients and Survivors in the Pre-COVID-19 Period: A Systematic Review.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Incremental Information from Repeated Loneliness Assessments in Middle-Aged and Older Adults.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Association between questionnaire-based and accelerometer-based physical activity and the incidence of psychiatric disorders in people with loneliness or social isolation: findings from the UK Biobank.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Assessing loneliness in later life: validation of the De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale for Portuguese older adults.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- The Association Between Social Isolation, Functional Social Support, and Memory: A Mediation Analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2026Article
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- Post-traumatic stress disorder.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2026Review
- Effectiveness of an Android-Based Loneliness Prevention Intervention for Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Indonesia: A Quasi-Experimental Study.Florence Nightingale journal of nursing · 2026Article
- Associations of Social and Physical Isolation With Material Deprivation and Inadequate Use of Preventive Care in the United States.Annals of family medicine · 2026Article
- Disentangling social isolation, loneliness, and later-life cognitive function for older adults in the United States: evidence from causal inference modeling.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2026Article
- Social inclusion of people with severe mental illness: a review of current practices, evidence and unmet needs, and future directions.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2026Article
- Evaluating the Feasibility, Acceptability, and Utility of the Home Alone Intervention: A Mixed Methods Pilot Study.Journal of aging research · 2026Article
- Mapping loneliness prevention and alleviation interventions: a comparative survey of Basel, Bern, Zurich, and Dublin.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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Abstract
In this editorial, we consider the current state of loneliness and social isolation research around the world, including knowledge gaps in the empirical literature.
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