Changes in social anxiety symptoms and loneliness after increased isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic
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For individuals who lost social connections or could not adapt to maintain connections, social support decreased and loneliness worsened, increasing risk of anxiety and depressive symptoms.
“For individuals who lost social connections or were unable to adapt to maintain their connections, social support decreased and loneliness worsened [7], putting them at elevated risk of anxiety and depressive symptoms.”
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The paper’s results and discussion (page unavailable in our copy) report decreased contact with family and friends and increased loneliness after the pandemic began. They do not measure social support or separately analyze people who lost connections or could not adapt to maintain them. The sentence places the anxiety-and-depression risk statement after the citation; the paper reports increased social anxiety but only modest depressive symptoms. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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Moitra, E., Brick, L. A., Cancilliere, M. K., Elwy, A. R., Erbe, A. M., Fenn, N., Nunn, A. S., Salhaney, P., & Chan, P. A. (2023) · Contemporary Clinical Trials · doi:10.1016/j.cct.2023.107211 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
“For individuals who lost social connections or were unable to adapt to maintain their connections, social support decreased and loneliness worsened [7], putting them at elevated risk of anxiety and depressive symptoms.”
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- Authors
- Thompson, C., Mancebo, M. C., & Moitra, E.
- Affiliations
- Brown University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Moitra, Ethan
- Venue
- Psychiatry Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-04
- Volume
- 298
- Pages
- 113834
- ISSN
- 0165-1781 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC9754712
- OpenAlex
- W3129632857
- Cited by
- 28
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 4
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Psychiatry Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Keywords
- social anxiety, loneliness, social isolation, COVID-19 pandemic, social networks, quarantine
- MeSH terms
- COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Anxiety, Cross-Sectional Studies, United Kingdom, Humans, Loneliness, Social Isolation, Pandemics
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