Remote Communication and Loneliness During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-Sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although remote communication technologies have been widely used to maintain connections with others against interpersonal contact restrictions and exacerbated loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is unclear whether and what types of remote communication technologies are effective in mitigating loneliness.

Objective

This study aimed to investigate the association between remote communication and loneliness when face-to-face meetings with others were strongly prohibited and whether this association varied across types of communication tools, age, and gender.

Methods

We used cross-sectional data from the Japan COVID-19 and Society Internet Survey conducted from August to September 2020. From registered panelists of the research agency, 28,000 randomly

SUBMITTER: Arakawa Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10369164 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature