ArticlePublic health in practice (Oxford, England)2025
Factors associated with quality of life and the use of public healthcare and social services in older adults experiencing loneliness.
Article in Public health in practice (Oxford, England), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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
1 citing paper in PubMed.
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.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Objectives: The aim of this study is to understand how different measures of loneliness affect the quality-of-life of older adults and their use of social and healthcare services. Study design: An observational, cross-sectional study was conducted, administering a survey to 1003 non-institutionalized individuals aged 65 years or over in Spain. Methods: Data on sociodemographic variables, quality-of-life, and the use of social and healthcare services were collected. The prevalence of loneliness was analyzed using various measures, while its relationship with quality-of-life and the use of social and healthcare services was assessed through linear and logistic regression models, adjusting for other factors. Results: Loneliness reduced quality-of-life by between 11.1 % and 20.7 %. Of the social and health services analyzed, we found that loneliness increased the likelihood of using home help services by a factor of 1.75-2.36 and increased the number of visits to primary care/nursing services by a factor of 1.51-1.70. Conclusions: Loneliness has detrimental effects on quality-of-life. Moreover, it may negatively impact health status, leading to increased use of social and healthcare services.
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.