Primary health care practitioners’ perception of patient loneliness in Japanese older adults: A cross-sectional study

Loneliness is a serious social issue in Japan. We aimed to examine the frequency and patient characteristics of Japanese family physicians and nurses overlooking or misjudging patient loneliness. This cross-sectional study involved 470 patients aged 50 years or older who visited two family medicine...

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Main Authors: Kazutaka Yoshida, Koki Nakamura, Goro Hoshi, Satoshi Kanke, Aya Goto, Ryuki Kassai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-09-01
Series:SSM: Population Health
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827322001227