Social isolation in mental health: a conceptual and methodological review

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 1451-1461

  Wang, Jingyi ^a   Lloyd Evans, Brynmor ^a   Giacco, Domenico ^b   Forsyth, Rebecca ^a   Nebo, Cynthia ^a   Mann, Farhana ^a   Johnson, Sonia ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ST PANCRAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conceptual model; Loneliness; Measures; Mental health; Social isolation

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSULTATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LONELINESS; MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH; NARRATIVE; SCIENTIST; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SYNTHESIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WEB OF SCIENCE; HEALTH PROMOTION; MENTAL HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY;

HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 85032362070     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-017-1446-1     Document Type: Review

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