Differential Impact of Transient and Chronic Loneliness on Health Status. A Longitudinal Study
Loneliness is associated with worse health status out-comes. Yet, the present study is one of the first to identify howpatterns of loneliness (transient and chronic) are associated withhealth over time.Design:A total of 2,390 individuals were inter-viewed in 2011–2012 and 2014–2015 in a follow-up st...
| Autores: | , , , , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Repositorio: | Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/709912 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10486/709912 https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2019.1632312 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | transient loneliness chronic loneliness health status longitudinal study Psicología |
| Sumario: | Loneliness is associated with worse health status out-comes. Yet, the present study is one of the first to identify howpatterns of loneliness (transient and chronic) are associated withhealth over time.Design:A total of 2,390 individuals were inter-viewed in 2011–2012 and 2014–2015 in a follow-up study con-ducted over a nationally representative sample of Spain. Afterconfirming a longitudinal relationship between loneliness andhealth status, a growth curve mixture modeling was used toexamine health trajectories.Main outcome measures:The three-item UCLA Loneliness Scale was used to assess loneliness. Healthstatus was measured with self-reported questions regarding tendomains (vision, mobility, and self-care, among others), and sevenmeasured tests (including grip strength, walking speed and imme-diate and delayed verbal recall).Results:A quarter of participantswere lonely at baseline. Both the group of transient and chronicloneliness showed a negative significant relationship with healthstatus at follow-up, (b¼ 0.063 andb¼ 0.075 respectively,p<0.001). Nevertheless, the health status did not change acrosstime in any group.Conclusion:People experiencing chronic lone-liness had the worst health status. Different patterns of lonelinesscould benefit from the appropriate interventions |
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