Editorial: Loneliness among youth and young adults
AI Summary
Loneliness is increasingly prevalent among youth and young adults and carries substantial mental, physical, and developmental harms.
Complex drivers include social transition, digital connectivity replacing face to face contact, socioeconomic inequities, and stigma preventing help seeking.
Urgent action needed: targeted prevention, scalable interventions, improved measurement, longitudinal research, and policy responses to reduce loneliness and its harms.
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