Sökning: WFRF:(Rieckmann Anna) >
Predictors of lonel...
Predictors of loneliness onset and maintenance in European older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic
-
- Panes Lundmark, Vania (författare)
- Umeå universitet,Umeå centrum för funktionell hjärnavbildning (UFBI),Institutionen för integrativ medicinsk biologi (IMB)
-
- Josefsson, Maria, 1979- (författare)
- Umeå universitet,Enheten för demografi och åldrandeforskning (CEDAR),Statistik
-
- Rieckmann, Anna (författare)
- Umeå universitet,Umeå centrum för funktionell hjärnavbildning (UFBI),Institutionen för integrativ medicinsk biologi (IMB),Institut für Psychologie, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Neubiberg, Germany
-
(creator_code:org_t)
- Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
- 2023
- Engelska.
-
Ingår i: Frontiers in Psychology. - : Frontiers Media S.A.. - 1664-1078. ; 14
- Relaterad länk:
-
https://doi.org/10.3...
-
visa fler...
-
https://umu.diva-por... (primary) (Raw object)
-
https://urn.kb.se/re...
-
https://doi.org/10.3...
-
visa färre...
Abstract
Ämnesord
Stäng
- Objectives: Loneliness is a major public health concern. Duration of loneliness is associated with severity of health outcomes, and further research is needed to direct interventions and social policy. This study aimed to identify predictors of the onset vs. the maintenance of loneliness in older adults before and during the pandemic using longitudinal data from the Survey of Health, Age, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).Methods: Groupings of persistent, situational, and no loneliness were based on self-reports from an ordinary pre-pandemic SHARE wave and a peri-pandemic telephone interview. Predictors were identified and compared in three hierarchical binary regression analyses, with independent variables added in blocks of geographic region, demographics, pre-pandemic social network, pre-pandemic health, pandemic-related individual, and country level variables.Results: Self-reported loneliness levels for the persistent, situational, and no loneliness groups were stable and distinct through 7 years preceding the pre-pandemic baseline measure. Shared predictors were chronic diseases, female sex, depression, and no cohabitant partner. Persistent loneliness was uniquely predicted by low network satisfaction (OR: 2.04), functional limitations (OR: 1.40), and a longer country-level isolation period for older adults (OR: 1.24).Conclusion: Interventions may target persons with depression, functional limitations, chronic health issues, and no cohabitant partner. The added burden of the length of isolation on those who are already lonely should be taken into account when employing social policies that target older adults. Further research should distinguish between situational and persistent loneliness, and seek to identify predictors of chronic loneliness onset.
Ämnesord
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Psykologi -- Tillämpad psykologi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Psychology -- Applied Psychology (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- chronic loneliness
- COVID-19
- loneliness
- longitudinal
- pandemic
- persistent loneliness
- predictors
- transient loneliness
Publikations- och innehållstyp
- ref (ämneskategori)
- art (ämneskategori)
Hitta via bibliotek
Till lärosätets databas