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School closures and sheltering at home in the COVID-19 pandemic isolate children and adolescents from peers, teachers, extended family, and community. In a survey performed during the pandemic, fully one third of adolescents reported high levels of loneliness. To determine whether measures for disease containment might portend future mental health problems, researchers performed a rapid review of studies focused on the relationship between loneliness and mental health in young people.
In a search employing terms such as quarantine, social isolation, loneliness, and mental health, 4531 English-language studies published since 1946 were identified; 63 studies involving 51,576 healthy participants and using valid assessment measures were analyz…