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Factors Associated with Personal Protective Measures Utilization among Community Dwelling Older Adults during COVID-19 Pandemic in Alexandria , Egypt

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Introduction: The world's population is aging. Elderly faces various physiological and pathological changes make them at higher risk to be infected with COVID-19 and to suffer more from its complications. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the factors associated with personal protective measures utilization among community dwelling older adults during COVID-19 Pandemic in Alexandria, Egypt. Setting: The study was conducted at El-Wafaa club in Mohram Bec, which is affiliated to the Ministry of Social Solidarity in Alexandria, Egypt. Subjects: 190 eligible older adult participants, have neither cognitive impairment nor depression, able to read and write and have access to the internet. Tools: three tools were applied for data collection. Results: This study revealed that more than one third of the studied elderly had fair practice level toward COVID prevention (36.8 %), all the studied elderly had unsatisfactory level regrading social distancing, more than one half (56.8 %) of the studied elderly had negative attitude toward Covid-19, and more one half (55.8%) of the study subjects had good knowledge level. Conclusion: This study concluded that, the study elders have personal, psychological, and environmental factors that hinder their utilization of the protective measures against COVID-19, and the level of practices is affected significantly by sex, different educational level, and living alone or with others, (P = 0.010, 0.045, 0.005 respectively). Recommendations: The current study recommended designing of interventions targeted at improving older adults' practices , knowledge and attitudes regarding coronavirus and the usage of its preventive measures .

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10.21608/niles.2020.164360

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COVID-19 - personal protective measures- Older adults, Egypt

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Sarah

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Hafez

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Ali

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Department of Gerontological Nursing- Faculty of Nursing- Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

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sara-hafez@alexu.edu.eg

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Alexandria

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Nadia

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Abdelnasser

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2Department of Gerontological Nursing, South Valley University, Egypt

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drnadia.abdelnaser@nurs.svu.edu.eg

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Eman

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Shoukr

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Mahmoud Mohammed

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Department of Gerontological Nursing- Faculty of Nursing- Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

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eman.shouker@alexu.edu.eg

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3

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COVID-19

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13106

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2020-07-01

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2020-08-02

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2020-07-01

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74

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90

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2636-3224

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2636-3232

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https://niles.journals.ekb.eg/article_164360.html

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695

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NILES journal for Geriatric and Gerontology

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https://niles.journals.ekb.eg/

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22 Jan 2023