• Loneliness is an unpleasant emotional response to perceived isolation. (wikipedia.org)
  • The study notes that social isolation and loneliness don't necessarily mean the same thing. (slashgear.com)
  • University of Surrey Health Psychology Lecturer Dr. Kimberly Smith explained , 'The evidence we examined suggests that social isolation may be linked with inflammation, but the results for a direct link between loneliness and inflammation were less convincing. (slashgear.com)
  • Ultimately, the study found that differing inflammatory markers were linked to different experiences - social isolation versus loneliness, which doesn't necessarily happen at the same time. (slashgear.com)
  • Rapid review of reviews: what remotely delivered interventions can reduce social isolation and loneliness among older adults? (ioe.ac.uk)
  • Social distancing places them at even higher risk than normal of social isolation and loneliness, which can adversely affect quality of life, wellbeing and mental health, and are associated with physical ill health and mortality. (ioe.ac.uk)
  • The requirement for older adults to restrict their activities during the COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on the need to understand how to minimise the impact of loneliness and isolation. (ioe.ac.uk)
  • We followed a 'review of reviews' methodology to synthesise evidence from related (but differing) remote interventions for social isolation and loneliness, to help inform decisions about different approaches. (ioe.ac.uk)
  • Telephone befriending has not been widely researched, but qualitative studies suggest improvements in loneliness and social isolation. (ioe.ac.uk)
  • Concepts of loneliness and social isolation vary, making comparisons and conclusions challenging. (ioe.ac.uk)
  • A research presented at the 125th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association on 5th August 2017 suggests that a higher public health hazard might be represented by loneliness and social isolation than obesity. (news-medical.net)
  • The research looked at the impact of both social isolation as well as the rise of loneliness, which is expected to continue to rise in the future. (news-medical.net)
  • In order to clarify the effects of loneliness and social isolation on the risk of premature death, data from two meta-analyses were presented by Holt-Lunstad. (news-medical.net)
  • It evaluated the possible role of social isolation, loneliness or living alone on mortality. (news-medical.net)
  • Studies of social isolation in animals and loneliness in humans offer clues to how this social distress affects the brain and behavior. (brainfacts.org)
  • Increased isolation of clients may be contributing to a wider public health problem of elder loneliness and depression. (cdc.gov)
  • Great AARP video on how to handle loneliness and isolation. (aarp.org)
  • Objective We undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate the association between loneliness or social isolation and incident coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke. (bmj.com)
  • Future studies are needed to investigate whether interventions targeting loneliness and social isolation can help to prevent two of the leading causes of death and disability in high-income countries. (bmj.com)
  • 2 Yet, compared with our understanding of these risk factors, we know much less about the implications of loneliness and social isolation for disease aetiology. (bmj.com)
  • 3 , 4 Health-risk behaviours associated with loneliness and social isolation include physical inactivity and smoking. (bmj.com)
  • 5 Loneliness is linked to lower self-esteem and limited use of active coping methods, 6 while social isolation predicts decline in self-efficacy. (bmj.com)
  • However, the actual relationship of smoking with current and future social isolation and loneliness is unclear. (ersjournals.com)
  • We examined associations of self-reported smoking status at baseline assessment, with social isolation (low social contact, social disengagement, domestic isolation), and loneliness, measured at baseline, and follow-up at 4, 8 and 12 years. (ersjournals.com)
  • Smoking is associated with the development of increasing social isolation and loneliness in older adults, suggesting smoking is detrimental to aspects of psychosocial health. (ersjournals.com)
  • Results indicated that cold weather interferes with workers' job performance, increasing their risk for injury and illness, whereas the community's isolation and rural nature causes loneliness and boredom, resulting in more high-risk behaviors. (cdc.gov)
  • Many who abuse alcohol chronically have certain personality traits: feelings of isolation, loneliness, shyness, depression, dependency, and hostile and self-destructive impulsivity. (msdmanuals.com)
  • We've all experienced a sense of loneliness at some point, whether due to feeling left out of a friendship group at school, feeling slighted at work, or watching all your friends get married before you. (greatist.com)
  • The UCLA Loneliness Scale uses a series of statements and a formula to quantify someone's sense of loneliness and was used in the survey to determine that many Americans do not feel truly connected to those with whom they are in relationship. (elca.org)
  • The survey results also suggest that the average sense of loneliness is progressively higher as you look at younger and younger generations. (elca.org)
  • In the United States, doctors call stress from overwork "the new tobacco" while depression and loneliness are soaring. (earthisland.org)
  • Every two to four years, subjects completed questionnaires that measured depression and loneliness, gave their medical history and underwent a physical examination. (livescience.com)
  • Hearing ability is inversely associated with distress, somatization, depression, and loneliness among all age groups ( 2 , 3 ). (cdc.gov)
  • While agreeing that loneliness alleviation can be a good thing, those who take the existential view tend to doubt such efforts can ever be fully successful, seeing some level of loneliness as both unavoidable and even beneficial, as it can help people appreciate the joy of living. (wikipedia.org)
  • A study published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin has found that louder sounds could be a good way to deal with loneliness. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Other students may deal with loneliness by becoming involved too quickly and deeply with people and activities without evaluating the consequences of their involvement. (illinois.edu)
  • Loneliness is associated with illness and death, including higher risk of neurodegenerative diseases, but no study has examined whether the association between loneliness and detrimental outcomes extends to PD. (medscape.com)
  • The association between loneliness and incident PD was not moderated by sex, age, or polygenetic risk score. (medscape.com)
  • Conclusions: The findings suggest that the pandemic has further increased psychosocial job demands of HC aides. (cdc.gov)
  • Objective: In the present study, we examined cohort differences in key components of psychosocial function, including subjective age, control beliefs, and perceived social integration, as indicated by loneliness and availability of very close others. (hu-berlin.de)
  • Conclusion: Taken together, our findings suggest that some aspects of psychosocial function of older adults have improved across the two recent decades. (hu-berlin.de)
  • Loneliness, or the perceived discrepancy between the quantity and quality of ones' actual social relationships and desired level of connectedness, is a potentially important psychosocial factor in lung cancer patients. (usf.edu)
  • Our findings complement other evidence that loneliness is a psychosocial determinant of health associated with increased risk of morbidity and mortality [and] supports recent calls for the protective and healing effects of personally meaningful social connection," the authors write. (medscape.com)
  • Other social treatments for loneliness include the ownership of pets and loneliness-designed technologies, such as meetup services or social robots (although the use of some technologies in order to combat loneliness is debated). (wikipedia.org)
  • The best way to begin to understand loneliness is to examine some of the ways people experience it. (illinois.edu)
  • The study, involving 12 experiments with over 2000 people from Australia, Singapore, the UK and the USA, found that people who are socially excluded show a preference for higher volume sounds, like music or background noise, and that these sounds can also help mitigate feelings of loneliness. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • In addition to feelings of excitement and anticipation, there may also be feelings of loneliness. (illinois.edu)
  • No matter how long feelings of loneliness linger, they can quickly take a toll on your mental and physical health. (greatist.com)
  • This is an ideal amount of time to use social media each day in order to curb feelings of loneliness. (greatist.com)
  • Instead of fighting feelings of loneliness, embrace them! (greatist.com)
  • While our regular lives have been flipped-turned upside down (à la "The Fresh Prince"), keeping a routine in place can help keep those feelings of loneliness at bay. (greatist.com)
  • We build on this body of work to propose that situational form of engagement with various interaction partners play a vital role in shaping feelings of loneliness. (mpg.de)
  • We test these expectations using original time-diary data capturing daily interactions and momentary feelings of loneliness. (mpg.de)
  • Results show that active engagement associates with reduced feelings of loneliness relative to passive engagement. (mpg.de)
  • Chronic loneliness is also correlated with an increased risk of death and suicidal thoughts. (wikipedia.org)
  • Statistics also suggest that they are twice as likely to experience loneliness, insomnia, and suicidal thoughts. (uc.cl)
  • Wolfe makes the case that everyone imagines they are lonely in a special way unique to themselves, whereas really every single person sometimes experiences loneliness. (wikipedia.org)
  • The study found that loneliness may not directly increase inflammation in the body, but rather that it potentially changes how the body's inflammatory system reacts when the lonely individual is experiencing stress. (slashgear.com)
  • When these things happen, people who feel lonely may start doing things that add to their loneliness. (illinois.edu)
  • The researchers suggest that the social interaction at sporting events can make people feel as if they belong, and less lonely as a result. (nieonline.com)
  • A public health physician, Dr Tuyi Mebawondu, stated that the adoption of a Western lifestyle influenced the problem of loneliness in Nigeria, noting that 50 per cent of lonely people could develop mental illness. (punchng.com)
  • Loneliness can be short term (state loneliness) or long term (chronic loneliness). (wikipedia.org)
  • Chronic loneliness (loneliness which exists for a significant amount of time in one's life) is generally correlated with negative effects, including increased obesity, substance use disorder, risk of depression, cardiovascular disease, risk of high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. (wikipedia.org)
  • An American Association of Retired Persons' (AARP) study by the name "Loneliness Study" estimates nearly 42.6 million adults in United States, who are above 45 years old, as suffering from chronic loneliness. (news-medical.net)
  • Coronary artery disease and hypertension are among the most important causes of heart failure, a chronic disabling condition that results when the weakened heart muscle is unable to pump all the blood that the body's tissues need. (harvard.edu)
  • July 13, 2023 -- More social interaction could be good for seniors' brain health and help prevent dementia, new research suggests. (webmd.com)
  • Cite this: Loneliness Tied to Increased Risk for Parkinson Disease - Medscape - Oct 03, 2023. (medscape.com)
  • Older adults are already more likely to have long-term illness or disability, to live alone and to be widowed, all of which are risk factors for loneliness. (ioe.ac.uk)
  • Supported video-communication interventions are regarded positively by older adults and have positive effects on loneliness and social support. (ioe.ac.uk)
  • The study found a link between loneliness in older adults and less brain volume, especially in the areas that are affected by dementia. (webmd.com)
  • According to a recent national survey, one quarter of all adults experience painful loneliness at least every few weeks, and the incidence among adolescents and college students is even higher. (illinois.edu)
  • Loneliness is associated with a higher risk of developing Parkinson disease (PD) across demographic groups and independent of other risk factors, data from nearly 500,000 UK adults suggest. (medscape.com)
  • Nearly one in four adults (24%) had audiometric notches, suggesting a high prevalence of noise-induced hearing loss. (cdc.gov)
  • As a subjective emotion, loneliness can be felt even when a person is surrounded by other people. (wikipedia.org)
  • PTSD and LRS were independently associated with impairment (loneliness, poor subjective health, low life satisfaction, poor marital relationship, negative health risk perception). (cdc.gov)
  • [23] Other studies suggest that about 0.5% of children have ME/CFS, and that it is more common in adolescents than in younger children. (wikipedia.org)
  • The global health body further noted that both older people and adolescents experience loneliness across the world. (punchng.com)
  • Results: the prediction of suicides among adolescents in Mato Grosso revealed a predominance of males, non-white and with eight or more years of schooling. (bvsalud.org)
  • Beyond its direct impact on clinically relevant outcomes, the experience of loneliness may be the mechanism by which social-cognitive factors influence depressive symptoms and quality of life. (usf.edu)
  • Current data result in negative outcomes on people's well-being and on the migrant sample can be accessed from the 2018 physical and mental health. (who.int)
  • Findings suggest that addressing maternal distress is important to the study and treatment of child sexual abuse. (elinewberger.com)
  • In particular, the research team looked at the proportions of people who met the diagnostic criteria for anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, psychological distress, insomnia, substance abuse, loneliness, and suicidal ideation, comparing the differences between the baseline in 2020 and the last follow-up in 2021. (medscape.com)
  • In an analysis of almost 55,000 adult participants in three ongoing studies , having psychological distress (anxiety, depression, worry, perceived stress, or loneliness) prior to SARS-CoV-2 infection was associated with increased risk of developing long COVID. (medscape.com)
  • In the 21st century, some academics and professionals have claimed that loneliness has become an epidemic, including Vivek Murthy, the Surgeon General of the United States. (wikipedia.org)
  • Indeed, many nations around the world now suggest we are facing a 'loneliness epidemic", she commented. (news-medical.net)
  • Most people experience loneliness at some points in their lives, and some feel it often. (wikipedia.org)
  • Migrants can experience loneliness due to missing their home culture.Studies have found this effect can be especially strong for students from countries in Asia with a collective culture, when they come to study at universities in more individualist English speaking countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is also important to know that loneliness is a common experience. (illinois.edu)
  • Studies show you're 29 percent more likely to develop heart disease if you experience loneliness. (greatist.com)
  • 4 Reports have criticised the quality of care of these patients 6 , 7 and poor quality care is likely to result in poor patient experience. (bmj.com)
  • It is suggested further studies that investigate the sensible and corporeal experience of deaf people. (bvsalud.org)
  • Participants completed measures of loneliness (UCLA V3), depressive symptoms, (CES-D) and quality of life (FACT-L) at baseline and 30 days later. (usf.edu)
  • Loneliness was assessed by a single question at baseline and incident PD was ascertained via health records over 15 years. (medscape.com)
  • Contrary to expectations for a prodromal syndrome, loneliness was not associated with incident PD in the first 5 years after baseline but was associated with PD risk in the subsequent 10 years of follow-up (HR, 1.32). (medscape.com)
  • Results Overall, studies suggest that peer support is associated with improvements in mental health including greater happiness, self-esteem and effective coping, and reductions in depression, loneliness and anxiety. (bmj.com)
  • This can result in the "Fear of missing out", which in turn, leads to low self-esteem. (today.az)
  • Culture is also seen as a cause of loneliness in the sense that western culture may have been contributing to loneliness, ever since the Enlightenment began to favour individualism over older communal values. (wikipedia.org)
  • Loneliness has indeed become a global health threat, especially in the Western world, where individualism is more expressed, loneliness can be an issue. (punchng.com)
  • The public health expert listed changes in the family structure, the COVID-19 pandemic, the cost of living crisis, the pursuit of education in distant places, poverty, separation, bereavement, unpleasant experiences, and bullying on social media as other factors responsible for the growing amount of loneliness in the country. (punchng.com)
  • Online discussion groups and forums are less clear with mixed results, with increases in social support, but less evidence for improvements in loneliness. (ioe.ac.uk)
  • There is limited evidence suggesting that Asians/Indians/Others are less likely to be depressed. (ipsnews.net)
  • Mediation analyses yielded evidence for partial mediation, with loneliness mediating the relationships of social-cognitive variables with depressive symptoms and quality of life for nine of the ten models tested. (usf.edu)
  • border effects, trade liberalisation, then retrace the evolution of concern Some of these examples contributed foreign investments, global marketing, about exposure to SHS over time and to the evidence that is summarised transnational tobacco advertising, the resulting policies for protection in later chapters in this Handbook. (who.int)
  • Globally, evidence suggests that marital infidelity has existed in history. (who.int)
  • There is evidence of genetic or biochemical predisposition, including data that suggest some people who develop alcohol use disorder are less easily intoxicated (ie, they have a higher threshold for central nervous system effects). (msdmanuals.com)
  • There are courses in quantitative methods, but not in qualitative methods, which suggests a hierarchy within methodologies and indeed that it is not necessary to study qualitative methods which can somehow be `picked up' from general reading. (lu.se)
  • While it may seem impossible to change how you think, the findings from the study suggest that this process affects your emotions, decision making, and other cognitive processes. (vagarights.com)
  • As a result, the vast majority of the population had to deal with the breakdown of face-to-face social relationships, the impossibility of carrying out recreational or religious activities in public places, and the urgent need to adapt the methods of study and work through the internet medium (e.g., smart working), with the risk of job loss for all those workers whose work was not possible remotely. (springer.com)
  • Counting friends The results come from a study of more than 5,000 individuals who took part in the Framingham Heart Study between 1991 and 2001. (livescience.com)
  • And a report from the Framingham Offspring Study also suggests that marriage is truly heartwarming. (harvard.edu)
  • The purpose of the current study was to investigate the relationship of loneliness to depressive symptoms, quality of life, and social-cognitive variables and to explore the role of loneliness in mediating relationships between social-cognitive variables and depressive symptoms and quality of life. (usf.edu)
  • Finally, the study examined whether loneliness predicted change over time in depressive symptoms and quality of life. (usf.edu)
  • RESULTS: Amongst 8,927 workers, only 20% reported no pain at either time point, and 16% reported 3 painful sites both times. (cdc.gov)
  • Loneliness overlaps and yet is distinct from solitude. (wikipedia.org)
  • Distinct from solitude, loneliness describes a distressful emotion and desire for human connection. (brainfacts.org)
  • Loneliness is not just an "emotional" issue, but can also negatively affect your physical health in a major way. (elca.org)
  • New research has found that attending live sporting events can improve emotional health, lower levels of loneliness and promote greater satisfaction with life, the Washington Post newspaper reports. (nieonline.com)
  • Multi-tool interventions (PC, training, messaging, chat groups) show decreases in loneliness, but not always increases in social support. (ioe.ac.uk)
  • The findings from this review do not lead us to recommend particular modes of delivering befriending, social support, or low intensity psychological interventions (e.g. videoconferencing, telephone calls, chat rooms or forums), but they do suggest that the characteristics identified through the detailed analysis of components should be incorporated into the delivery of an intervention. (ioe.ac.uk)
  • In addition, the groups' satisfaction with social relationships were compared using the Peer Network and Dyadic Loneliness Scale (PNDLS), the Loneliness and Social Dissatisfaction Questionnaire (LSDQ), and the Friendship Qualities Scale (FQS). (nheri.org)
  • Loneliness was positively correlated with depressive symptoms (r = .44) and negatively correlated with quality of life (r = -.59). (usf.edu)
  • In addition, loneliness was positively correlated with social-cognitive variables in the expected directions and social-cognitive variables were related to depressive symptoms and quality of life in the expected directions (p's (usf.edu)
  • Conclusions Our findings suggest that deficiencies in social relationships are associated with an increased risk of developing CHD and stroke. (bmj.com)
  • As a result, there are many potential confounds that may interfere with the ability to make conclusions regarding the effects of home-schooling. (nheri.org)
  • Loneliness is also associated with clinical depression and anxiety, even months later. (brainfacts.org)
  • In children, surveys suggest loneliness often co-occurs with depression and anxiety. (brainfacts.org)
  • This, combined with new insights into the pandemic's effect on mental health and promising findings regarding treatment options, resulted in anxiety becoming this week's top trending clinical topic. (medscape.com)
  • Results from a retrospective chart review analysis found that ketamine infusions can help reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation among patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD). (medscape.com)
  • Although tie strength is a significant theoretical concept in the field, recent work suggests that other dimensions of social ties may be important to consider. (mpg.de)
  • We anticipate that when engaging in direct forms of engagement (active engagement), the association between different types of social ties and loneliness will be minimal. (mpg.de)
  • Research has shown that loneliness is found throughout society, including among people in marriages along with other strong relationships, and those with successful careers. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some research suggested that experiencing loneliness may increase levels of cytokine IL-6, which leads to inflammation. (slashgear.com)
  • In this competition, we challenged participants to put forward a research question related to loneliness and movement for education, and answer it using the loneliness dataset provided (see below) alongside other suggested data sources. (bristol.ac.uk)
  • Loneliness, like a bad cold, can spread among groups of people, new research finds. (livescience.com)
  • I agree, but would like to suggest an additional dimension to the analysis of female agency and empowerment in Carter's The Bloody Chamber by using Mulvey's theory of the male gaze and Soloway's definition of the female gaze , which are perspectives I believe previous research on specifically Carter's works has overlooked. (lu.se)
  • We also found a significant increase in searches for loneliness, worry and sadness, while searches for stress, suicide and divorce on the contrary fell. (repec.org)
  • Loneliness spreads They found loneliness is catchy with three degrees of separation. (livescience.com)
  • Is there a relationship between the movement of people for education and loneliness? (bristol.ac.uk)
  • Join our loneliness and movement for education competition to better understand how the displacement of people for education affects loneliness and compete for a cash prize of £1,000. (bristol.ac.uk)
  • This can result in young people moving away and dividing families. (bristol.ac.uk)
  • The passage also suggests another theme, the failure of people to communicate, which Joyce develops throughout the story. (enotes.com)
  • While a runny nose might spread through handshakes, people likely catch the loneliness bug through negative interactions. (livescience.com)
  • Society may benefit by aggressively targeting the people in the periphery to help repair their social networks and to create a protective barrier against loneliness that can keep the whole network from unraveling," Cacioppo said. (livescience.com)
  • Researchers say it suggests there are potential benefits of social engagement in maintaining brain volume and preventing dementia. (webmd.com)
  • The increasing rate of loneliness among Nigerians could increase the burden of mental illness in the country, medical experts have said. (punchng.com)
  • Loneliness can cause both mental and physical illness. (punchng.com)
  • Loneliness can lead to mental illness and mental illness can lead to more loneliness. (punchng.com)
  • Mental illness is linked to lots of diseases including diabetes, and arthritis, which can worsen the state of loneliness. (punchng.com)
  • Our results suggest that people's mental health may have been severely affected by the lockdown. (repec.org)
  • Data from the loneliness index was provi ded to participants. (bristol.ac.uk)
  • For instance, participants indicated how often during the previous week they had experienced a particular feeling, including loneliness, with four possible answers: 0-1 days, 1-2 days, 3-4 days and 5-7 days. (livescience.com)
  • The analysis, which included more than 400 participants with TRD, suggests that ketamine is a safe and rapid treatment in a real-world patient population. (medscape.com)
  • There's much scientists still need to learn about loneliness, the brain, and mental health, but they know that youth need socialization for healthy development. (brainfacts.org)
  • But it's not clear if loneliness can cause mental health problems, or vice versa. (brainfacts.org)
  • Drug intake and alcoholism are also worsening loneliness in the younger generation and this can further worsen mental health," Mebawondu said. (punchng.com)
  • PTSD is described as a condition that results not only from a threat or harm to the self, but also from "…serious threat or harm to one's children" (p. 247). (elinewberger.com)
  • The World Health Organisation recently declared loneliness to be a pressing global health threat. (punchng.com)
  • Findings suggest the importance of job rotation to avoid long exposures to cold temperatures, the value of a designated individual to inform workers about company and community resources that promote healthy lifestyles, and the possible utility of a joint worker-management safety committee. (cdc.gov)
  • The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has developed a loneliness index using open prescription data which is available at the MSOA (Middle layer Super Output Area in the ONS coding system) level across England. (bristol.ac.uk)
  • These data also provide information to identify MSOA's that are within geographical clusters where the loneliness index is high or low. (bristol.ac.uk)
  • Data collection consists of five phases with the results of each stage informing the structure and application of the next. (researchgate.net)
  • He explained this adopted lifestyle caused reduced interactions among family members, consequently creating a high level of self-dependence and loneliness. (punchng.com)
  • The use of drugs, commonly among the younger ones, to solve the issue of loneliness but at the end of the day, they become lonelier after the effect of the drugs has worn off and they can't reconnect with themselves. (punchng.com)
  • Some have argued that self-selection would skew the results if healthy men are more likely to marry than men with health problems. (harvard.edu)
  • Numerous studies conducted over the past 150 years suggest that marriage is good for health. (harvard.edu)
  • : 183 ME/CFS significantly reduces health, happiness, productivity, and can also lead to loneliness and alienation. (wikipedia.org)
  • On his part, a clinical health psychologist, Dr Abel Obosi, stated that the adoption of the individualistic character of the Western world, as against the collectivism attribute of the African traditional society, were part of the factors fuelling loneliness in the country. (punchng.com)
  • Another reason, as our work suggests, is that these exposures led to basic biological changes that impact both mental and physical health. (cdc.gov)
  • These negative results suggest that it is necessary support, starting with pregnancy, is the key to safe birth to eliminate the barriers to high quality perinatal care and maternal and child health ( 1 ). (who.int)
  • These results support similar findings from observational studies. (brainfacts.org)
  • Studies suggest that using social media leads to the feeling of loneliness . (today.az)
  • Studies within Mennonite Church USA suggest the average pastor stays in a pastoral career for only 14.2 years, with six years being the median stay in one congregation. (mennoniteusa.org)
  • Results of studies of proposed causes and treatments are often poor or contradictory. (wikipedia.org)
  • As a result, volunteer bias, which is a concern in many psychological studies, may be of special concerns in these studies. (nheri.org)
  • However, The EC had a number of questions about the courses and wanted to use the opportunity created by the evaluation initiative to suggest ways in which the achievements of the last few years could be consolidated and progressed. (lu.se)
  • Transient loneliness (loneliness which exists for a short period of time) is related to positive effects, including an increased focus on the strength of one's relationships. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Hermit suggests that it is time to look inward and focus on self-discovery. (astrology.com)
  • Overall, the Hermit and Page of Swords suggest that you take time to focus on your personal journey and your pursuit of knowledge, which will undoubtedly lead to greater self-awareness and enlightenment. (astrology.com)
  • Loneliness at Time 1 predicted additional variance in depressive symptoms at Time 2 (Β = .38, Adj R2 = .31) after accounting for depressive symptoms at Time 1, but loneliness at Time 1 did not account for additional variance in quality of life at Time 2 after accounting for quality of life at Time 1. (usf.edu)
  • The disappearance of comforting touch - resulting from physical distancing practices - altered the expression of compassion in the HC aide-client care relationship. (cdc.gov)
  • Loneliness has been linked with various mental and physical illnesses , including depression. (livescience.com)
  • Reacting to the declaration during an exclusive interview with PUNCH Healthwise , the physicians identified westernisation, and social media dependence as some of the factors fuelling loneliness in Nigeria. (punchng.com)
  • Medical treatments for loneliness include beginning therapy and taking antidepressants. (wikipedia.org)
  • Social treatments for loneliness generally include an increase in interaction with others, such as group activities (such as exercise or religious activities), re-engaging with old friends or colleagues, and becoming more connected with one's community. (wikipedia.org)
  • Loneliness can be a result of genetic inheritance, cultural factors, a lack of meaningful relationships, a significant loss, an excessive reliance on passive technologies (notably the Internet in the 21st century), or a self-perpetuating mindset. (wikipedia.org)