Loneliness as a public health issue in context: capturing experiences and social determinants of loneliness in diverse young adults in London & Tokyo

孤独作为背景下的公共卫生问题：捕捉伦敦不同年轻人孤独的经历和社会决定因素

基本信息

批准号：
2887238
负责人：
金额：
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依托单位：
King's College London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Studentship
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2023 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2887238
关键词：
Loneliness public health issue context

项目摘要

The last decade of research points to a global trend of increasing numbers of adults feeling lonely -though rates of increase differ greatly between countries and regions. Contrary to the narrative thatloneliness is a problem mainly faced by the elderly, national and local government statisticssuggest rates of loneliness are equal or even higher in young adulthood. As people reportingloneliness are more likely to experience later mental and physical health problems, addiction, self-injury and reduced quality of life, rising rates are an alarming development for academics andpublic health officials alike. Yet there remain gaps in our knowledge around what socialcircumstances increase risk for and maintain loneliness, and research is limited by current tools forquantitative measurement.This project brings together two ongoing studies of young people's mental health in London andTokyo to 1) qualitatively investigate experiences and social determinants of loneliness in diversegroups of young people, and 2) develop a new, cross-culturally valid questionnaire for measuringyoung adult loneliness in the general population. Given the attention that loneliness is receiving inboth countries - epitomized by their recent appointments of "Ministers for Loneliness" - conductingthis work in both the UK and Japan presents a unique opportunity to inform domestic public healthpolicy and global efforts to tackle social isolation.

研究的最后十年表明，全球成年人感到孤独的趋势 - 尽管国家和地区之间的增长率差异很大。与叙事的叙事相反，这是一个主要由老年人，国家和地方政府统计的孤独率所面临的问题。随着人们举报的人的身份更有可能遇到以后的身心健康问题，成瘾，自我伤害和生活质量降低，对学者和公共卫生官员的发展是令人震惊的发展。然而，我们的知识仍然存在差距，关于哪些社会循环会增加孤独的风险和维持孤独感，并且研究受到当前的工具的限制，该项目汇集了对伦敦和伦敦的年轻人的心理健康的持续研究，从而有效地调查了一种有效地调查成年人的孤独者，并在有效地调查了孤独的人，并衡量了新的孤独者，以及2）孤独的人，并衡量了2）孤独的人，以及2）态度，以及2）态度，以及2）孤独的态度。在一般人群中。鉴于人们的注意是孤独正在接受陷入困境的国家（由他们最近任命“孤独部长”的任命，这是英国和日本进行的这项工作，这为这项工作提供了一个独特的机会，以告知国内公共保健和全球解决社会隔离的努力。