RT Journal Article
T1 A systematic review evaluating loneliness assessment instruments in older adults
A1 Bugallo Carrera, César
A1 Dosil Díaz, Carlos
A1 Anido Rifón, Luis Eulogio
A1 Pacheco Lorenzo, Moisés
A1 Fernández Iglesias, Manuel José
A1 Gandoy Crego, Manuel
A1 Fernández Iglesias, Manuel José
K1 Solitude
K1 Loneliness
K1 Older adults
K1 Geriatric
K1 Loneliness assessment tools
AB Introduction and objectives: The experiences and changes that come along withold age may lead to a feeling of loneliness, usually followed by negative physicaland mental manifestations. In this systematic review, we evaluated the existingtools to assess loneliness in older adults.Methods: We performed a literature search in the Web of Science, Medline,and PsycINFO, following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviewsand Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. After, we examined the psychometricproperties of the instruments with a focus on reliability, validity, and mainconclusions.Results: We included 27 articles published between 1996 and 2021.Conclusion: To date, there are few instruments to assess loneliness in olderadults. In general, they present adequate psychometric properties, although it istrue that some scales show somewhat low levels of reliability and validity
PB Frontiers Media
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30706
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30706
LA eng
NO Bugallo-Carrera C, Dosil-Díaz C, Anido-Rifón L, Pacheco-Lorenzo M, Fernández-Iglesias MJ and Gandoy-Crego M (2023) A systematic review evaluating loneliness assessment instruments in older adults. Front. Psychol. 14:1101462
NO This work has been partially funded by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, project SAPIENS- Services and applications for a healthy aging (Grant PI09/90609 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033)
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026