How often do you feel isolated from others?
Loneliness
Responses should be coded as the following: Hardly ever (1); Some of the Time (2); Often (3).The scores for each individual question can be added together to give you a possible range of scores from 3 to 9. Researchers in the past have grouped people who score 3-5 as "not lonely" and people with the score 6-9 as "lonely".