This questionnaire measures your feelings of loneliness and offers solutions to help increase your social connections.
Doctors, researchers, and other health care providers have found that loneliness is a growing public health problem, and can impact both your physical and mental well-being. While loneliness is not a diagnosable medical condition, research has shown that it has the same impact on death rates as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
In May 2018, Cigna surveyed 20,000 adults to understand the impact of loneliness in the United States. Cigna’s U.S. Loneliness Index showed:
- Nearly 50% of Americans reported sometimes or always feeling alone;
- One in four Americans rarely or never feel as though there are people who understand them; and
- Generation Z (adults ages 18-22) is the loneliest generation and claims to be in worse health than people older than them.
Below is a link for an abbreviated version of the UCLA Loneliness Index to help you assess how loneliness may be impacting you. Take the survey and learn how a few simple steps can help you increase your social connections.
Therapy can help! Talk with your therapist about how you are feeling, both mentally and physically, and get support that will help you live a more enriched life.
Click here to take the questionnaire.