Reducing loneliness and depressive symptoms in older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: A pre-post evaluation of a psychosocial online intervention

• Aina Gabarrell-Pascuet ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: aina.gabarrell@sjd.es

  Affiliations Epidemiology of Mental Health Disorders and Ageing Research Group, Sant Joan de Déu Research Institute, Barcelona, Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain, Research, Teaching, and Innovation Unit, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Department of Medicine, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2236-1435

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• Laura Coll-Planas,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research group on Methodology, Methods, Models and Outcomes of Health and Social Sciences (M3O), Faculty of Health Sciences and Welfare, Centre for Health and Social Care Research (CESS), University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC), Vic, Barcelona, Spain, Institute for Research and Innovation in Life Sciences and Health in Central Catalonia (IRIS-CC), Vic, Spain

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• Sergi Blancafort Alias,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Fundació Salut i Envelliment UAB, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Regina Martínez Pascual,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Epidemiology of Mental Health Disorders and Ageing Research Group, Sant Joan de Déu Research Institute, Barcelona, Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain

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• Josep Maria Haro,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Epidemiology of Mental Health Disorders and Ageing Research Group, Sant Joan de Déu Research Institute, Barcelona, Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain, Research, Teaching, and Innovation Unit, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

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• Joan Domènech-Abella

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Epidemiology of Mental Health Disorders and Ageing Research Group, Sant Joan de Déu Research Institute, Barcelona, Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain, Research, Teaching, and Innovation Unit, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

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