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Daily Life, Fear of COVID-19 and Social Support in the Older Adults in Home Isolation: A Cross-Sectional Study

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Maykon dos Santos Marinho, Luana Araujo dos Reis, Thuanne dos Santos Rodrigues, Priscila Souza Nascimento, Jose Felipe Costa da Silva, Everaldo Nery de Andrade, Rafael Alves Bernardes, Ines Franco Almeida, Elaine dos Santos Santana and Luciana Araujo dos Reis*
Issue: Volume4-Issue10
Pages: 1435-1440
Received: 2023-10-09
Accepted: 2023-10-19
Published: 2023-10-20

Abstract

The COVID-19 (infection caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus) pandemic caused several changes in the everyday life of the older adults, altering the perception of psychosocial varia-bles.

Objetive: To evaluate the daily life, fear of COVID-19, and family support of the older adults at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methodology: Cross-sectional and exploratory study conducted with older adults people in home social isolation in the municipality of Vitória da Conquista/BA. Data were collected by sociodemographic questionnaire, Fear of COVID-19 scale and Satisfaction with Social Support scale. The STROBE checklist was used to evaluate the study.

Results: Of the 101 participants, 68.3% were female and 56.5% in the age group of 60 to 69 years; in relation to daily life before the pandemic 89.1% reported having an active life and 77.2% started to reside with the family during the pandemic. In social support, an overall above aver-age score of 56.04 (9.23) was obtained. Regarding fear, 10.9% reported feeling dizzy or fainting because of the news and 18.8% reported being paralyzed or without reactions when thinking or being exposed to information about the virus.

Conclusions: Changes in the daily lives of the older adults were related to feeling less active and being confined to family members. Symp-toms due to fear of COVID-19 and satisfaction with social support were observed to a lesser ex-tent than expected.

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© 2023 dos Santos Marinho M, et al. Distributed under Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 Creative CommonsAttribution

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dos Santos Marinho M, dos Reis LA, dos Santos Rodrigues T, Nascimento PS, da Silva JFC, de Andrade EN, Bernardes RA, Almeida IF, dos Santos Santana E, dos Reis LA. Daily Life, Fear of COVID-19 and Social Support in the Older Adults in Home Isolation: A Cross-Sectional Study. J Biomed Res Environ Sci. 2023 Oct 20; 4(10): 1435-1440. doi: 10.37871/jbres1814, Article ID: JBRES1814, Available at: https://www.jelsciences.com/articles/jbres1814.pdf

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GerontologyPublic Health

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