Fear of coronavirus and health literacy levels of older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic

This study aimed to examine the fear of coronavirus and the health literacy levels of older adults during the pandemic. The sample consisted of 304 older adults from five family health centers in Turkey between April and May 2021. The data were collected using the Fear of COVID-19 Scale and the Heal...

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Autores principales: Ayaz-Alkaya, Sultan, Dülger, Hanifi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Special issue on Infectious Disease: From Prevention to Management
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8580850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34808420
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2021.11.001
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description This study aimed to examine the fear of coronavirus and the health literacy levels of older adults during the pandemic. The sample consisted of 304 older adults from five family health centers in Turkey between April and May 2021. The data were collected using the Fear of COVID-19 Scale and the Health Literacy Scale. The fear of COVID-19 was found to be higher in women, those with chronic diseases, and those who found the epidemic measures insufficient (p < 0.05). The health literacy level was found to be higher in those with high education level, those in the 65-74 age group, and those with not using regular medicine (p < 0.001). The health literacy of older adults was a slightly above moderate level and the fear of COVID-19 was at a moderate level. Health literacy levels of older adults may be increased with written, visual, and verbal health trainings.
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spelling pubmed-85808502021-11-12 Fear of coronavirus and health literacy levels of older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic Ayaz-Alkaya, Sultan Dülger, Hanifi Geriatr Nurs Special issue on Infectious Disease: From Prevention to Management This study aimed to examine the fear of coronavirus and the health literacy levels of older adults during the pandemic. The sample consisted of 304 older adults from five family health centers in Turkey between April and May 2021. The data were collected using the Fear of COVID-19 Scale and the Health Literacy Scale. The fear of COVID-19 was found to be higher in women, those with chronic diseases, and those who found the epidemic measures insufficient (p < 0.05). The health literacy level was found to be higher in those with high education level, those in the 65-74 age group, and those with not using regular medicine (p < 0.001). The health literacy of older adults was a slightly above moderate level and the fear of COVID-19 was at a moderate level. Health literacy levels of older adults may be increased with written, visual, and verbal health trainings. Elsevier Inc. 2022 2021-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8580850/ /pubmed/34808420 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2021.11.001 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Inc. 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8580850/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2021.11.001
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