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A 2026 review finds siblings of autistic people report more loneliness, anxiety and depressive symptoms alongside empathy and maturity. Evidence is mostly cross-sectional, and 1 randomized t…
Read articleOlder South Koreans with cognitive impairment had higher depression scores when their care came mainly from public caregivers or a mixed group of helpers rather than their adult children. A …
Read articleStress, low support, loneliness and depression during pregnancy were the factors most strongly linked to postpartum depression in a 2026 survey of 975 mothers from German-speaking countries.…
Read articleFinancial burden was the carer problem that most lowered quality of life when 771 Australian adults weighed caregiving situations against years of life. Their choices built the first scoring…
Read articleIn a 2026 interview study involving 6 adults with long-term chronic pain in Quebec, participants said their deepest suffering came less from how much they hurt than from what pain did to the…
Read articleUniversity students who used an AI chatbot for 12 weeks ended with anxiety scores about 2 points lower than students in weekly group therapy, in a randomized trial of 977 students in Israel.…
Read articleA longitudinal MIDUS analysis involving 840 adults found that loneliness scores higher than a person's objective social-isolation score were linked to later cognitive impairment mainly throu…
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