Social isolation and mental health: Evidence from adults with serious mental illness.

Abstract

For social workers and providers of services to individuals with SMI, it is important to understand the prevalence of loneliness in the population. It is also critical to provide those with SMI social support and inclusion interventions that aim to increase perceptions of mental well-being. Additionally, the distinction between subjective and objective social isolation provides evaluators of social support interventions a more accurate definition from which to measure. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).