The knowledge level and precautionary measures taken by older adults during the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong

The study aims to examine the knowledge and the practice of the precautionary measures taken by older adults in Hong Kong against the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Overall, more than half the participants responded correctly that droplet transmission is one of the main transm...

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Autores principales: So, Winnie K.W., Chan, Sophia S.C., Lee, Angel C.K., Tiwari, Agnes F.Y.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7130144/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15476763
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2004.04.004
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description The study aims to examine the knowledge and the practice of the precautionary measures taken by older adults in Hong Kong against the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Overall, more than half the participants responded correctly that droplet transmission is one of the main transmission routes of SARS. Those who received formal education demonstrated that they acquired greater knowledge of the sources and precautionary measures for SARS. The types of precautionary measures used and the factors affecting their behaviours were discussed. The results of the study could help the health-care professionals develop appropriate health promotion and disease prevention programmes for older adults.
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spelling pubmed-71301442020-04-08 The knowledge level and precautionary measures taken by older adults during the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong So, Winnie K.W. Chan, Sophia S.C. Lee, Angel C.K. Tiwari, Agnes F.Y. Int J Nurs Stud Article The study aims to examine the knowledge and the practice of the precautionary measures taken by older adults in Hong Kong against the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Overall, more than half the participants responded correctly that droplet transmission is one of the main transmission routes of SARS. Those who received formal education demonstrated that they acquired greater knowledge of the sources and precautionary measures for SARS. The types of precautionary measures used and the factors affecting their behaviours were discussed. The results of the study could help the health-care professionals develop appropriate health promotion and disease prevention programmes for older adults. Elsevier Ltd. 2004-11 2020-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7130144/ /pubmed/15476763 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2004.04.004 Text en Copyright © 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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title_full The knowledge level and precautionary measures taken by older adults during the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong
title_fullStr The knowledge level and precautionary measures taken by older adults during the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong
title_full_unstemmed The knowledge level and precautionary measures taken by older adults during the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong
title_short The knowledge level and precautionary measures taken by older adults during the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15476763
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2004.04.004
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