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The UCLA Loneliness Scale
  • Basic Information
  • Detailed Information
  • Domains
  • Psychometrics

Basic Information

Abbreviated name
UCLALS
Full name
The UCLA Loneliness Scale
Items ?
The number of questions in the survey
3
Short description
A short version of a longer 20-item tool, this tool was developed for service providers, it is short and academically rigorous, with a simple scoring system. However, it was developed in the USA with students, although the 3-item version has been tested with older people. Shown to be a robust measure of loneliness in self-administered questionnaires and telephone interviews.
PCCC or QoL? ?
This compendium contains patient-reported measures that are either designed to specifically measure aspects of Person Centred Co-Ordinated Care (P3C), or alternatively tools that are designed to measure some aspect of Quality of Life (QoL) or Health Related Quality of Life (hrQoL). All the measures in this compendium have been broadly categorised into one of those two concepts.
Person Centred Coordinated Care
Main Domains Measured ?
This is the key domains that the measure is targeting.
Loneliness
Type of measure ?
The measures in this compendium can take a variety of forms. Generally, they will be either Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) or Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM). However, we have also included a few measures that are completed by proxy-individual (PROXY), which are useful in instances where the respondent cannot answer directly (e.g. dementia or end of life). Sometimes, these measures can even be a composite of these types, and target both experiences and outcomes – we have labelled these measures “PROEMs”.
PREM
Respondent ?
The person that fills in the questionnaire - e.g. patient, Health Care Professional, or proxy (normally a carer or family member)
Patients

Detailed Information

Year developed ?
The year in which the measure was first published.
2004
Country developed in ?
The main country[s] in which the measure was first developed.
US
Original publication ?
The publication in which the measure was originally published.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=18504506
Target condition ?
The measures can be either generic or disease specific (e.g. Diabetes, Heart Failure)
Older People
Main context tested in ?
The main context in which the measure has been developed and used (E.g. Hopital, General Practice etc).
Research
Main countries used in ?
The main countries in which the measure has been developed and used.
US
Target age ?
e.g. Adults, Children, Elderly
Older people
Main uses of measure ?
The context in which the measure is most often used – e.g. clinical trials; national surveys.
Research into loneliness.
Used in UK? ?
Whether the instrument has been tested and validated within a UK healthcare context.
Yes
Impact ?
A crude indication of the impact of the measure on academia. This is the number of times the original publication has been cited on PubMed, divided/normalised to the years since publication.
6.5
Language
English

Domains

Domain description
Loneliness

Psychometrics

Brief description ?
A brief description of the initially reported psychometric properties of the measure.
The alpha for the Three-Item Loneliness Scale .72.