Loneliness among people with severe mental illness during the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from a linked UK population cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Aim/goal/purpose

Population surveys underrepresent people with severe mental ill health. This paper aims to use multiple regression analyses to explore perceived social support, loneliness and factor associations from self-report survey data collected during the Covid-19 pandemic in a sample of individuals with severe mental ill health.

Design/methodology/approach

We sampled an already existing cohort of people with severe mental ill health. Researchers contacted participants by phone or by post to invite them to take part in a survey about how the pandemic restrictions had impacted health, Covid-19 experiences, perceived social support, employment and loneliness. Loneliness was measured by the three item UCLA loneliness scale.

Findings

In the pandemic sub-cohort, 367

SUBMITTER: Heron P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8757957 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature