Loneliness and social disconnectedness in the time of pandemic period among Brazilians: evidence from the ELSI COVID-19 initiative

dc.creatorTorres, Juliana Lustosa
dc.creatorBraga, Luciana de Souza
dc.creatorMoreira, Bruno de Souza
dc.creatorCastro, Camila Menezes Sabino
dc.creatorVaz, Camila Teixeira
dc.creatorAndrade, Amanda Cristina de Souza
dc.creatorAndrade, Fabíola Bof
dc.creatorCosta, Maria Fernanda Furtado Lima
dc.creatorCaiaffa, Waleska Teixeira
dc.date2022-06-29T18:02:11Z
dc.date2022-06-29T18:02:11Z
dc.date2022
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-26T23:37:52Z
dc.date.available2023-09-26T23:37:52Z
dc.identifierTORRES, Juliana Lustosa et al. Loneliness and social disconnectedness in the time of pandemic period among Brazilians: evidence from the ELSI COVID-19 initiative. Aging Ment Health, v. 26, n. 5, p. 898-904, 2022. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2021.1913479.
dc.identifier1360-7863
dc.identifierhttps://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/53580
dc.identifier10.1080/13607863.2021.1913479
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/8892586
dc.descriptionObjectives: This study aimed at estimating the pre-pandemic and pandemic prevalence of loneliness and investigating the association of loneliness with social disconnectedness during social distancing strategies in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic period.Methods: We used data from the ELSI COVID-19 initiative with participants from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSI-Brazil), which comprised 4,431 participants aged 50 years and over. Loneliness (hardly ever/some of the time/often) was assessed by the question "In the past 30 days, how often did you feel alone/lonely?". Social disconnectedness included information on social contacts through virtual talking (i.e. telephone, Skype, WhatsApp, or social media) and outside-home meetings with people living in another household. Covariates included sociodemographic and health related characteristics. Multinomial logistic regression models were used to estimate odds ratios (OR) with their 95% confidence interval (CI).Results: The overall prevalence of loneliness during the pandemic was 23.9% (95% CI 20.7-27.5); lower than in the pre-pandemic period (32.8%; 95% CI 28.6-37.4). In the pandemic period, 20.1% (95% CI 16.9-23.6) reported some of the time feeling lonely and 3.9% (95% CI 3.1-4.8) reported often feeling lonely. In the fully adjusted model, virtual talking disconnectedness (OR=1.67; 95% CI 1.09-2.56) was positively associated with some of the time feeling lonely and outside-home disconnectedness (OR=0.33; 95% CI 0.18-0.60) was negatively associated with often feeling lonely.Conclusion: Individuals with virtual talking disconnectedness and without outside-home disconnectedness are at higher risk of loneliness during the time of COVID-19 pandemic. Stimulating virtual talking connectedness might have the potential to diminish loneliness despite steep outside-home disconnectedness.
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dc.languageeng
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Group
dc.rightsrestricted access
dc.subjectLoneliness
dc.subjectepidemiologic studies
dc.subjectprevalence
dc.subjectsocial distancing
dc.titleLoneliness and social disconnectedness in the time of pandemic period among Brazilians: evidence from the ELSI COVID-19 initiative
dc.typeArticle


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