Evidence base
Frontiers in Public Health
Editorial: The Impact of Social Isolation and Loneliness on Mental Health and Wellbeing
What it found
This editorial introduces a collection of fourteen papers on social isolation and loneliness gathered during the COVID-19 pandemic, framing their combined findings on the mental health and wellbeing consequences of social disconnection.
Why it matters for practice
As an editorial overview rather than primary research, this is best used as a map to the wider collection rather than as evidence in its own right; readers wanting specifics on measurement or intervention effects should follow through to the underlying papers.