The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Pandemic of Lockdown Loneliness and the Role of Digital Technology

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/22287, first published July 07, 2020.

Syed Ghulam Sarwar Shah ^{1, 2}, MBBS, MA, MSc, PhD; David Nogueras ³, MBA; Hugo Cornelis van Woerden ^{4, 5, 6}, MBChB, MPH, FFPH, MRCGP, PhD; Vasiliki Kiparoglou ^{1, 7}, BSc, MSc, MBA, PhD

¹ NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust , Oxford , GB

² Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford , Oxford , GB

³ EvZein Limited , Oxford , GB

⁴ Public Health Agency Northern Ireland , Belfast , GB

⁵ Division of Rural Health and Wellbeing, University of the Highlands and Islands , Inverness , GB

⁶ Institute of Nursing and Health Research, Ulster University , Belfast , GB

⁷ Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford , Oxford , GB

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