Loneliness and social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
² Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
³ School of Psychiatry, University New South Wales; and Discipline Psychiatry, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
⁵ Department of Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.

Tzung-Jeng Hwang et al. Int Psychogeriatr. 2020 Oct.

. 2020 Oct;32(10):1217-1220.

doi: 10.1017/S1041610220000988. Epub 2020 May 26.

¹ Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
² Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
³ School of Psychiatry, University New South Wales; and Discipline Psychiatry, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
⁵ Department of Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.

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