ReviewSleep and biological rhythms2022
The contribution of social isolation and loneliness to sleep disturbances among older adults: a systematic review.
Review in Sleep and biological rhythms, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07204444 (Equipping the Aging Network to Address Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Elevated Suicide Risk Among Vulnerable Older Adults), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers.
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Equipping the Aging Network to Address Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Elevated Suicide Risk Among Vulnerable Older Adults: A Partially Nested Randomized Controlled Trial of the BE WITH Innovation
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Rest Assured: The Association of Structural, Functional Support, and Loneliness With Subjective Sleep Health.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- Social Interaction, Life Satisfaction, and Follow-Up Sleep Quality in Community-Dwelling Adults: A Three-Year Longitudinal Cohort Study in Japan.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Severe Loneliness Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults at Risk of Falls in Andalusia: Epidemiological Determinants and Clinical Correlates of Pain and Sleep Quality.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Loneliness, Aloneness, and Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in Southern Italian Individuals.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Relationship between sleep disorders and non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents with allergic rhinitis: a dual perspective analysis of person-centered and variable-centered on the role of social isolation.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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- Reciprocal effects between loneliness and sleep disturbances from adolescence to mid-adulthood: the HUNT study.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2026Article
- Sleep Health Inequities: Sociodemographic, Psychosocial, and Structural Determinants of Short Sleep in U.S. Adults.Clocks & sleep · 2025Article
- Life-Space Mobility Is Related to Loneliness Among Living-Alone Older Adults: Longitudinal Analysis With Motion Sensor Data.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025Article
- Network analysis of loneliness, mental, and physical health in Czech adolescents.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- Bridge symptoms of depression and anxiety among older adults in China: a longitudinal network comparison by living arrangements.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- [Loneliness as health risk: a narrative review].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2024Review
- Associations between Social Contact, Sleep and Dietary Patterns among Children: A Cross-Sectional Study.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Gender differences in relations between social comparison, social support, and sleep disturbance among midlife and older adults.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2024Article
- Anxious-Withdrawal and Sleep Problems during Adolescence: The Moderating Role of Peer Difficulties.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A two-mediator serial mediation chain of the association between social isolation and impaired sleep in old age.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Profile of Tabriz Older People Health Survey (TOPS-2019): a representative community-based cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- How does loneliness "get under the skin" to become biologically embedded?Biodemography and social biologyReview
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Abstract
A large number of older people encounter both objective and subjective types of social isolation and sleep disorders. Social isolation increases a person's risk of a wide range of adverse health outcomes and premature death. Social isolation can cause poor sleep quality that has been proposed as one of the possible mechanisms by which social isolation affects people's health and quality of life. The present study was conducted to determine the relationship between objective and subjective social isolation with sleep difficulties among older adults. All articles in PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, Embase, PsycInfo, and Social care online databases published by December 2020 were systematically searched for relevant published articles. Two authors separately checked the acceptability and quality of the studies using the Newcastle Ottawa checklist. Any disagreement was resolved by consulting the third author. According to the inclusion criteria, 11 studies were systematically reviewed, of which five were cross-sectional, and six were longitudinal studies. No meta-analysis was performed due to the high heterogeneity of the studies. Based on the present study results, both objective and subjective social isolation are related to sleep disturbance in older people. This systematic review showed that objective and subjective social isolation are associated with low sleep quality. It is recommended to investigate the causal relationships and possible pathways that affect the studied variables in future studies.
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