在COVID-19期间为有风险的老年人提供健康支持
Marian Ryan1, Lisa M Gibbs2, Sonia R Sehgal2
1Institute for Healthcare Advancement, La Habra, CA 90631, USA.
Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)
|July 14, 2023
概括
社区伙伴关系在COVID-19期间有效地参与了老年人. 低接触干预改善了缓解行为和运动,证明了向弱势群体提供健康信息的可行策略.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 卫生沟通健康沟通
背景情况:
- 老年人面临着COVID-19的重大风险,并因获得可靠的健康信息和支持的机会有限而复杂化.
- 早期的流行病挑战突出了为老年人定制的可访问,健康识字资源的需要.
- 老年人的健康素养水平往往是理解和采用健康建议的障碍.
研究的目的:
- 评估在COVID-19大流行期间通过社区伙伴关系参与老年人的可行性.
- 评估低接触干预对COVID-19知识,缓解行为,医疗保健利用,体力活动和孤独感的影响.
- 确定资源设计中的健康素养最佳实践是否提高了干预的有效性.
主要方法:
- 一项前性,实验性队列研究,涉及98名老年人,其中87人完成了干预.
- 参与者被随机分配到对照组 (接受高级资源套件) 和治疗组 (套件加上电话健康指导).
- 使用健康素养最佳实践开发了干预材料,评估包括BRIEF查工具.
主要成果:
- 在整个队列中观察到COVID-19缓解行为和运动频率的显著增加.
- 在COVID-19知识,远程医疗/医生访问或孤独得分方面没有发现显著变化.
- 该研究的完成率为88.7%,这表明尽管临床风险中等,健康素养水平不同,但参与成功.
结论:
- 与值得信赖的社区实体合作是一种可行的策略,可以在流行病等公共卫生危机期间接触到老年人.
- 以健康素养原则设计的低接触干预措施可以积极影响老年人群的特定健康行为.
- 随着延长后续的进一步研究可能会揭示对知识,医疗保健和福祉的更广泛影响.
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