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Mental Health Changes in Older Adults in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study in Mexico

This study examined changes in some aspects of mental health, as well as worries and behaviors related to the COVID-19 pandemic in a sample of older adults, during three different moments of the first year of the pandemic in Mexico. The sample consisted of 2,307 older adults (38% men and 62% women)....

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Autores principales: Betancourt-Ocampo, Diana, Toledo-Fernández, Aldebarán, González-González, Alejandro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9019126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35462849
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.848635
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author Betancourt-Ocampo, Diana
Toledo-Fernández, Aldebarán
González-González, Alejandro
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description This study examined changes in some aspects of mental health, as well as worries and behaviors related to the COVID-19 pandemic in a sample of older adults, during three different moments of the first year of the pandemic in Mexico. The sample consisted of 2,307 older adults (38% men and 62% women). The results indicated that older adults presented less concern about the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as less adherence to preventing procedures in the first wave, compared to subsequent evaluations. In addition, greater depressive symptoms, anxiety and stress were found in older adults in the last wave; however, the proportion of older adults identified with high scores in these variables was lower than that reported in national data.
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spelling pubmed-90191262022-04-21 Mental Health Changes in Older Adults in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study in Mexico Betancourt-Ocampo, Diana Toledo-Fernández, Aldebarán González-González, Alejandro Front Public Health Public Health This study examined changes in some aspects of mental health, as well as worries and behaviors related to the COVID-19 pandemic in a sample of older adults, during three different moments of the first year of the pandemic in Mexico. The sample consisted of 2,307 older adults (38% men and 62% women). The results indicated that older adults presented less concern about the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as less adherence to preventing procedures in the first wave, compared to subsequent evaluations. In addition, greater depressive symptoms, anxiety and stress were found in older adults in the last wave; however, the proportion of older adults identified with high scores in these variables was lower than that reported in national data. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9019126/ /pubmed/35462849 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.848635 Text en Copyright © 2022 Betancourt-Ocampo, Toledo-Fernández and González-González. 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.
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title Mental Health Changes in Older Adults in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study in Mexico
title_full Mental Health Changes in Older Adults in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study in Mexico
title_fullStr Mental Health Changes in Older Adults in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study in Mexico
title_full_unstemmed Mental Health Changes in Older Adults in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study in Mexico
title_short Mental Health Changes in Older Adults in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study in Mexico
title_sort mental health changes in older adults in response to the covid-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study in mexico
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9019126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35462849
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.848635
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