Single-item versus scale: Comparing respondent demographic, social, and health characteristics by measure of loneliness using the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) data

• Stephanie A. Chamberlain ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sachambe@ualberta.ca

  Affiliation Faculty of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9602-3060

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• Lauren E. Griffith,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Rachel D. Savage,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Jesse Batara,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, College of Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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• Wenting Yan,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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• Andrea Gruneir

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

  Affiliations Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, College of Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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