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The Relationship Between Loneliness and Depressive Symptoms in Children and Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis

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COVID-19 school closures and social isolation in children and youth: prioritizing relationships in education

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Groups 4 Health protects against unanticipated threats to mental health: Evaluating two interventions during COVID-19 lockdown among young people with a history of depression and loneliness

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Longitudinal Associations Between Loneliness and Cognitive Ability in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936

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The potential of placing a digital assistant in patients’ homes

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Acceptability and Feasibility of an Intervention to Enhance Social Group Belonging: Evidence From Three Trials of Groups 4 Health

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Neurogenetics and Epigenetics of Loneliness

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Can Resilience Buffer the Effects of Loneliness on Mental Distress Among Working-Age Adults in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Latent Moderated Structural Modeling Analysis

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Feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of an internet-based CBT intervention for loneliness in older adults: A pilot RCT

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User-centered development of an internet-based CBT intervention for the treatment of loneliness in older individuals

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Loneliness among seniors

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ON LONELINESS AND THE ELDERLY

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Loneliness and Longing: Conscious and Unconscious Aspects

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Dimensions of loneliness

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HOW DO LONELY OLDER PEOPLE TALK ABOUT LONELINESS? PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF THE BBC LONELINESS EXPERIMENT

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