Social isolation and loneliness, objective and subjective features of dysfunctional social relationships, are more prevalent in patients with schizophrenia (SCZ) than in the general population. This study aimed to explore sex differences in loneliness and social isolation among Chinese chronic SCZ patients...
Finally, in the context of COVID-19, loneliness predicted higher depressive symptoms and depressive symptoms predicted higher loneliness one month later. This relationship was not mediated by emotion regulation difficulties. Instead, emotion regulation difficulties and depressive symptoms were reciprocally ...
However, according to Hawkley and Cacioppo, chronic loneliness may contribute to feelings of unsafety, leading to hypervigilance to (social) threats in the environment, and other processing biases: relative to nonlonely people, lonely individuals see the social world as a more threatening place, ...
Mental health and illness are a public health concern1. Nowadays, the prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as mental disorders, is rapidly increasing, and the prevention of their associated risk factors has been one of the world's health priorities2. The World Health Organization...
(31.5%) reported dealing with a chronic disease other than long COVID. Of these, 8 participants (22.2%) with asthma, 5 (13.8%) had diabetes, 9 (24.3%) had fibromyalgia, 5 (13.8%) had bowel diseases (Crohn’s/colitis), 4 (11.1%) had hypothyroidism, 6 (16.6%) had high blood ...
Depression and chronic fatigue syndrome are two circumstances that can be mistaken for one another. The former can be a symptom of the latter and both equally can lead to extremely identical effects to those who definitely have the disorder. The symptoms of depression tend to boost gradually on...
By contrast, adults living alone had consistently worse levels of depressive symptoms, which could be related to higher levels of loneliness due to social restrictions.30 However, individuals living with children had higher levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms initially than individuals living with...
(C) adjusted for age, sex, residence, marital status, educational level, smoking status, drinking status, systolic blood pressure, and body mass index; history of diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and chronic kidney disease; and use of hypertension medications, diabetes medications, and lipid-...
Intergenerational support and depressive symptoms among older adults in rural China: the moderating roles of age, living alone, and chronic diseases Article Open access 27 January 2022 Association between social capital and depression among older people: evidence from Anhui Province, China Article ...
(2) parent and child agreement on children’s self-report of somatic symptoms. The odds of self-report of somatic complaints were significantly associated with family conflict, school and peer stress, and community violence exposure (OR = 1.26, 95 % CI: 1.05–1.50; OR = 1.18, 95 % CI ...