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The relationship between quality of life and fear of Turkish individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study

OBJECTIVE: In this study, it was aimed to determine the relationship between quality of life and the fear experienced due to the COVID-19 pandemic. METHOD: This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted with a total of 1060 participants from Turkey's 65 provinces. The research data were c...

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Autores principales: Aksoy, Ahu, Abiç, Arzu, Değirmenci, Filiz, Vefikuluçay Yılmaz, Duygu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9759703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34561061
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2021.06.003
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author Aksoy, Ahu
Abiç, Arzu
Değirmenci, Filiz
Vefikuluçay Yılmaz, Duygu
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description OBJECTIVE: In this study, it was aimed to determine the relationship between quality of life and the fear experienced due to the COVID-19 pandemic. METHOD: This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted with a total of 1060 participants from Turkey's 65 provinces. The research data were collected through an online questionnaire consisting of three parts: “Personal Information Form”, “The Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCS)” and “World Health Organization Life Quality Scale-Short Form (WHOQOL-BREF)”. Independent two-group t-test (Student's t-test), and one-way ANOVA test were used to compare the means of groups. The Pearson Correlation Coefficient was calculated to determine the level of correlation between two independent continuous variables. A value of p < .05 was accepted as the threshold for statistical significance. RESULTS: The fear levels of women, married individuals and primary school graduates were found to be high, while quality of life was low among participants with poor economic status, those with COVID-19 symptoms and subjects who had been in close contact with a COVID-19-positive patient. In addition, there was an inverse relationship between the level of fear related to COVID-19 and quality of life (physical and psychological health). PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Nurses are recommended to develop new care and evaluation strategies that will cover psychosocial and economic areas, as well as physical health, in order to protect and maintain the well-being of individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-97597032022-12-19 The relationship between quality of life and fear of Turkish individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study Aksoy, Ahu Abiç, Arzu Değirmenci, Filiz Vefikuluçay Yılmaz, Duygu Arch Psychiatr Nurs Article OBJECTIVE: In this study, it was aimed to determine the relationship between quality of life and the fear experienced due to the COVID-19 pandemic. METHOD: This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted with a total of 1060 participants from Turkey's 65 provinces. The research data were collected through an online questionnaire consisting of three parts: “Personal Information Form”, “The Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCS)” and “World Health Organization Life Quality Scale-Short Form (WHOQOL-BREF)”. Independent two-group t-test (Student's t-test), and one-way ANOVA test were used to compare the means of groups. The Pearson Correlation Coefficient was calculated to determine the level of correlation between two independent continuous variables. A value of p < .05 was accepted as the threshold for statistical significance. RESULTS: The fear levels of women, married individuals and primary school graduates were found to be high, while quality of life was low among participants with poor economic status, those with COVID-19 symptoms and subjects who had been in close contact with a COVID-19-positive patient. In addition, there was an inverse relationship between the level of fear related to COVID-19 and quality of life (physical and psychological health). PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Nurses are recommended to develop new care and evaluation strategies that will cover psychosocial and economic areas, as well as physical health, in order to protect and maintain the well-being of individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Elsevier Inc. 2021-10 2021-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9759703/ /pubmed/34561061 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2021.06.003 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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