Who is lonely in lockdown? Cross-cohort analyses of predictors of loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

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dc.creatorBu, F.
dc.creatorSteptoe, A.
dc.creatorFancourt, D.
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-04T17:03:02Z
dc.date.available2020-11-04T17:03:02Z
dc.date.created2020-06-16
dc.description.abstractenglishBackground There are concerns internationally that lockdown measures taken during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic could lead to a rise in loneliness. As loneliness is recognised as a major public health concern, it is therefore vital that research considers the impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic on loneliness to provide necessary support. But it remains unclear, who is lonely in lockdown? Methods This study compared sociodemographic predictors of loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic using cross-cohort analyses of data from UK adults captured before the pandemic (UK Household Longitudinal Study, n = 31,064) and during the pandemic (UCL (University College London) COVID-19 Social Study, n = 60,341). Results Risk factors for loneliness were near identical before and during the pandemic. Young adults, women, people with lower education or income, the economically inactive, people living alone and urban residents had a higher risk of being lonely. Some people who were already at risk of being lonely (e.g. young adults aged 18–30 years, people with low household income and adults living alone) experienced a heightened risk during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with people living before COVID-19 emerged. Furthermore, being a student emerged as a higher risk factor during lockdown than usual. Conclusions Findings suggest that interventions to reduce or prevent loneliness during COVID-19 should be targeted at those sociodemographic groups already identified as high risk in previous research. These groups are likely not just to experience loneliness during the pandemic but potentially to have an even higher risk than normal of experiencing loneliness relative to low-risk groups.spa
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2020.06.036spa
dc.identifier.issn0033-3506spa
dc.identifier.otherhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033350620302742?via%3Dihubspa
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12010/15328
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dc.publisherPublic Healthspa
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dc.sourcereponame:Expeditio Repositorio Institucional UJTLspa
dc.sourceinstname:Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozanospa
dc.subjectLonelinessspa
dc.subjectmental healthspa
dc.subjectPandemicspa
dc.subjectSocial isolationspa
dc.subject.lembSíndrome respiratorio agudo gravespa
dc.subject.lembCOVID-19spa
dc.subject.lembSARS-CoV-2spa
dc.subject.lembCoronavirusspa
dc.titleWho is lonely in lockdown? Cross-cohort analyses of predictors of loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemicspa
dc.type.coarhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501spa
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