Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of children with and without prospective loneliness

Characteristics	Sum of loneliness in follow‐ups			p‐Value b
	Overall	No	Yes
	N = 9,602 a	N = 7,098 a	N = 2,504 a
Loneliness at baseline	1,158 (12%)	329 (4.6%)	829 (33%)	<.001
Age (months)	119.01 ± 7.52	119.18 ± 7.51	118.53 ± 7.52	<.001
Sex at birth
Male	5,037 (52%)	3,856 (54%)	1,181 (47%)	<.001
Female	4,565 (48%)	3,242 (46%)	1,323 (53%)
Race/Ethnicity
White	5,317 (55%)	3,918 (55%)	1,399 (56%)	<.001
Black	1,305 (14%)	1,034 (15%)	271 (11%)
Other	2,980 (31%)	2,146 (30%)	834 (33%)

^a n (%); mean ± SD.

^b Pearson's chi‐squared test; Wilcoxon rank sum test.