%0 Journal Article
%A Müller, Julia
%A Elsaesser, Moritz
%A Berger, Ruben
%A Müller, Wiebke
%A Hellmich, Martin
%A Zehender, Nadine
%A Riedel-Heller, Steffi
%A Bewernick, Bettina H
%A Wagner, Michael
%A Frölich, Lutz
%A Peters, Oliver
%A Domschke, Katharina
%A Jessen, Frank
%A Hautzinger, Martin
%A Dafsari, Forugh S
%A Schramm, Elisabeth
%T The Impact of Loneliness on Late-Life Depression and Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
%J American journal of geriatric psychiatry
%V 33
%N 7
%@ 1064-7481
%C [Amsterdam]
%I Elsevier
%M DZNE-2025-00621
%P 717 - 729
%D 2025
%X This study investigates the association of loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic and the course of depressive, anxiety and sleep symptoms after psychological treatment in older adults.During the first wave of the pandemic in 2020, we assessed additional, original data of 132 participants aged ≥60 years who had completed psychological treatment for late-life depression (LLD) in the context of a multicenter, randomized controlled trial (CBT-late). We measured loneliness using the UCLA Loneliness Scale. Depression, anxiety and sleep symptoms were assessed using the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI), and Insomnia Severity Index (ISI).Participants with higher loneliness scores (n = 44) experienced a significant worsening of depressive and anxiety symptoms during the pandemic (estimated marginal mean difference (emmd) of change in GDS between post-treatment and COVID-19 visit: GDSemmd= -4.61, [95
%K Humans
%K Loneliness: psychology
%K COVID-19: psychology
%K Aged
%K Male
%K Female
%K Anxiety: psychology
%K Anxiety: therapy
%K Anxiety: epidemiology
%K Depression: psychology
%K Depression: therapy
%K Depression: epidemiology
%K Middle Aged
%K Aged, 80 and over
%K SARS-CoV-2
%K Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders: psychology
%K CBT-late (Other)
%K COVID-19 pandemic (Other)
%K Late-life depression (Other)
%K loneliness (Other)
%K older age (Other)
%K psychological treatment (Other)
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
%$ pmid:39884877
%R 10.1016/j.jagp.2025.01.003
%U https://pub.dzne.de/record/278785