id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cord-270570-wttom8eh	Killgore, William D.S.	Loneliness: A signature mental health concern in the era of COVID-19	2020-05-23		.txt	text/plain	1087	35	42	The mean Loneliness Scale score in the current sample (M=43.8 ± 13.5) was significantly higher than reported in prior work (M=38.4 ± 13.5; t 1287 =6.31, p<.0001; d=0.48), with 43% of respondents exceeding the cutoff for high loneliness (Morahan- Martin and Schumacher, 2003) . To assess the impact of current social isolation on loneliness and mental health, we administered the UCLA Loneliness Scale-3 (Russell, 1996) , a validated metric of the construct of loneliness, and the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) (Kroenke et al., 2001) , a widely used screening measure for depression, to a nationally representative sample of 1,013 (18-35 years old; 567 females; 446 males) English speaking U.S. adults.	cache/cord-270570-wttom8eh.txt	txt/cord-270570-wttom8eh.txt
