Comparing Fear of COVID-19 and Preventive COVID-19 Infection Behaviors Between Iranian and Taiwanese Older People: Early Reaction May Be a Key

This study assessed fear of the novel coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19), preventive COVID-19 infection behaviors, and the association between fear of COVID-19 and preventive COVID-19 infection behaviors among older people in Iran and Taiwan. Older people aged over 60 years (n = 144 for Iranians and 139 fo...

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Autores principales: Pakpour, Amir H., Liu, Chieh-hsiu, Hou, Wen-Li, Chen, Yu-Pin, Li, Yueh-Ping, Kuo, Yi-Jie, Lin, Chung-Ying, Scarf, Damian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Public Health
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8495067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34631652
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.740333
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author Pakpour, Amir H.
Liu, Chieh-hsiu
Hou, Wen-Li
Chen, Yu-Pin
Li, Yueh-Ping
Kuo, Yi-Jie
Lin, Chung-Ying
Scarf, Damian
author_facet Pakpour, Amir H.
Liu, Chieh-hsiu
Hou, Wen-Li
Chen, Yu-Pin
Li, Yueh-Ping
Kuo, Yi-Jie
Lin, Chung-Ying
Scarf, Damian
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description This study assessed fear of the novel coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19), preventive COVID-19 infection behaviors, and the association between fear of COVID-19 and preventive COVID-19 infection behaviors among older people in Iran and Taiwan. Older people aged over 60 years (n = 144 for Iranians and 139 for Taiwanese) completed the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) and two items on preventive COVID-19 infection behaviors (i.e., hand washing and mouth covering when sneezing). Iranian older people had a significantly higher level of fear of COVID-19 than did Taiwanese older people. Moreover, Iranian older people had significantly lower frequencies of preventive COVID-19 infection behaviors than did Taiwanese older people. Different timings in implementing COVID-19 infection control policies in Iran and Taiwan may explain why Iranian older people had greater fear of COVID-19 and lower preventive COVID-19 infection behaviors than did Taiwanese older people.
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spelling pubmed-84950672021-10-08 Comparing Fear of COVID-19 and Preventive COVID-19 Infection Behaviors Between Iranian and Taiwanese Older People: Early Reaction May Be a Key Pakpour, Amir H. Liu, Chieh-hsiu Hou, Wen-Li Chen, Yu-Pin Li, Yueh-Ping Kuo, Yi-Jie Lin, Chung-Ying Scarf, Damian Front Public Health Public Health This study assessed fear of the novel coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19), preventive COVID-19 infection behaviors, and the association between fear of COVID-19 and preventive COVID-19 infection behaviors among older people in Iran and Taiwan. Older people aged over 60 years (n = 144 for Iranians and 139 for Taiwanese) completed the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) and two items on preventive COVID-19 infection behaviors (i.e., hand washing and mouth covering when sneezing). Iranian older people had a significantly higher level of fear of COVID-19 than did Taiwanese older people. Moreover, Iranian older people had significantly lower frequencies of preventive COVID-19 infection behaviors than did Taiwanese older people. Different timings in implementing COVID-19 infection control policies in Iran and Taiwan may explain why Iranian older people had greater fear of COVID-19 and lower preventive COVID-19 infection behaviors than did Taiwanese older people. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8495067/ /pubmed/34631652 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.740333 Text en Copyright © 2021 Pakpour, Liu, Hou, Chen, Li, Kuo, Lin and Scarf. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Public Health
Pakpour, Amir H.
Liu, Chieh-hsiu
Hou, Wen-Li
Chen, Yu-Pin
Li, Yueh-Ping
Kuo, Yi-Jie
Lin, Chung-Ying
Scarf, Damian
Comparing Fear of COVID-19 and Preventive COVID-19 Infection Behaviors Between Iranian and Taiwanese Older People: Early Reaction May Be a Key
title Comparing Fear of COVID-19 and Preventive COVID-19 Infection Behaviors Between Iranian and Taiwanese Older People: Early Reaction May Be a Key
title_full Comparing Fear of COVID-19 and Preventive COVID-19 Infection Behaviors Between Iranian and Taiwanese Older People: Early Reaction May Be a Key
title_fullStr Comparing Fear of COVID-19 and Preventive COVID-19 Infection Behaviors Between Iranian and Taiwanese Older People: Early Reaction May Be a Key
title_full_unstemmed Comparing Fear of COVID-19 and Preventive COVID-19 Infection Behaviors Between Iranian and Taiwanese Older People: Early Reaction May Be a Key
title_short Comparing Fear of COVID-19 and Preventive COVID-19 Infection Behaviors Between Iranian and Taiwanese Older People: Early Reaction May Be a Key
title_sort comparing fear of covid-19 and preventive covid-19 infection behaviors between iranian and taiwanese older people: early reaction may be a key
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8495067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34631652
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.740333
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