Loneliness and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in older breast cancer survivors and noncancer controls.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had wide-ranging health effects and increased isolation. Older with cancer patients might be especially vulnerable to loneliness and poor mental health during the pandemic.

Methods

The authors included active participants enrolled in the longitudinal Thinking and Living With Cancer study of nonmetastatic breast cancer survivors aged 60 to 89 years (n = 262) and matched controls (n = 165) from 5 US regions. Participants completed questionnaires at parent study enrollment and then annually, including a web-based or telephone COVID-19 survey, between May 27 and September 11, 2020. Mixed-effects models were used to examine changes in loneliness (a single item on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression [CES-D

SUBMITTER: Rentscher KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8419003 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature