在COVID-19大流行期间认知功能和持续的互联网使用:来自瑞士老年人的纵向证据
Maud Wieczorek1,2, Robert Reinecke3, Carmen Borrat-Besson3
1Swiss Center of Expertise in Life Course Research LIVES, Lausanne and Geneva, Switzerland. maud.wieczorek@unil.ch.
Scientific reports
|August 13, 2024
概括
具有更好的认知功能,特别是记忆力的老年人更有可能在疫情期间保持一致的互联网使用. 认知健康是老年人数字参与的关键.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 认知科学 认知科学
- 数字健康数字健康
背景情况:
- COVID-19大流行加速了所有年龄组的数字技术采用.
- 老年人持续使用互联网对于社会联系和获得基本服务至关重要.
- 疫情前的认知功能可能会影响晚年生活中的数字参与.
研究的目的:
- 检查瑞士老年人中疫情前认知功能与持续使用互联网之间的关联.
- 为了确定客观和主观认知措施是否预测在疫情期间持续互联网参与.
主要方法:
- 利用来自2019/2020年欧洲健康,衰老和退休调查 (SHARE) 的1299名老年人的数据以及2021年技术使用问卷.
- 使用客观测试 (记忆,口语流) 和自我评价记忆来评估认知功能.
- 采用多变量探针回归,控制社会人口统计学和健康因素,以分析持续的互联网使用 (定义为一致的使用模式).
主要成果:
- 73.1%的参与者在大流行前和大流行期间表现出一致的互联网使用.
- 较高的全球认知得分,特别是在即时和延迟记忆中,与持续使用互联网有显著的联系.
- 积极的自我评价记忆 (好,非常好,非常好) 也与持续互联网参与的可能性更高相关.
结论:
- 认知健康,特别是记忆功能,在老年人维持互联网使用能力方面发挥着重要作用.
- 针对老年人的数字素养计划应该考虑认知评估和有针对性的培训.
- 认知状态是影响老年人数字包容性的关键因素.
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