Predictors of loneliness onset and maintenance in European older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

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 socia

SUBMITTER: Panes Lundmark V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10272806 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature