TY  - JOUR
AU  - Müller, Julia
AU  - Elsaesser, Moritz
AU  - Berger, Ruben
AU  - Müller, Wiebke
AU  - Hellmich, Martin
AU  - Zehender, Nadine
AU  - Riedel-Heller, Steffi
AU  - Bewernick, Bettina H
AU  - Wagner, Michael
AU  - Frölich, Lutz
AU  - Peters, Oliver
AU  - Domschke, Katharina
AU  - Jessen, Frank
AU  - Hautzinger, Martin
AU  - Dafsari, Forugh S
AU  - Schramm, Elisabeth
TI  - The Impact of Loneliness on Late-Life Depression and Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
JO  - American journal of geriatric psychiatry
VL  - 33
IS  - 7
SN  - 1064-7481
CY  - [Amsterdam]
PB  - Elsevier
M1  - DZNE-2025-00621
SP  - 717 - 729
PY  - 2025
AB  - 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
KW  - Humans
KW  - Loneliness: psychology
KW  - COVID-19: psychology
KW  - Aged
KW  - Male
KW  - Female
KW  - Anxiety: psychology
KW  - Anxiety: therapy
KW  - Anxiety: epidemiology
KW  - Depression: psychology
KW  - Depression: therapy
KW  - Depression: epidemiology
KW  - Middle Aged
KW  - Aged, 80 and over
KW  - SARS-CoV-2
KW  - Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders: psychology
KW  - CBT-late (Other)
KW  - COVID-19 pandemic (Other)
KW  - Late-life depression (Other)
KW  - loneliness (Other)
KW  - older age (Other)
KW  - psychological treatment (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:39884877
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.jagp.2025.01.003
UR  - https://pub.dzne.de/record/278785
ER  -