Exploring the Effect of Social Media and Group Chat Use on Social Isolation Among the Older Adults: A Study in Urban Japan.

Yohei Sekikawa, Masafumi Kunishige, Taichi Hitomi, Kazumi Kikuchi

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Article in Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Yohei SekikawaDepartment of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Kyorin University, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8611, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0423-9759

Masafumi KunishigeDepartment of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Health Science Technology, Bunkyo Gakuin University, Fujimino, Saitama 356-8533, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-1186-9775

Taichi HitomiDepartment of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Kyorin University, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8611, Japan.

Kazumi KikuchiDepartment of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Health and Medical Science, Teikyo Heisei University, Toshima, Tokyo 170-8445, Japan.ORCID 0009-0007-1467-5534

Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 19K13947

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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group chatsocial isolationsocial mediasocial networking service

Identifiers

PMID41149364

DOI10.3390/geriatrics10050131

PMCPMC12564680

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