Changes in loneliness prevalence and its associated factors among Bangladeshi older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Sabuj Kanti Mistry ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: smitra411@gmail.com

  Affiliations ARCED Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Department of Public Health, Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6100-6076

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• A. R. M. Mehrab Ali,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation ARCED Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5442-7147

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• Uday Narayan Yadav,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Centre for Research Policy and Implementation, Biratnagar, Nepal

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• Fouzia Khanam,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Md. Nazmul Huda

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations ARCED Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Translational Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University, Campbeltown, NSW, Australia, The School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Independent University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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