COVID-19 Pandemic: The Positives and Negatives from Older Adults' Perspective | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
| Article 66, Volume 13, Issue 1, March 2022, Page 977-995 PDF (573.02 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2022.222633 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Samia El Husseini Abd El Mageed El Kholy1; Reham Magdy Mohammed Abd Elsalam1; Sahar Mohammed Abd El-Hamid El-Sakkar2 | ||||
| 1Assistant Professor Gerontological Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University | ||||
| 2Clinical Instructor, Community health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Damanhur University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| COVID-19 is not the only pandemic or massive crisis to throw older adults' lives into disarray. Nevertheless, it is the first of its kind on this scale to occur at a time when the world becomes more connected. Exploring how older adults perceive It and how they see positive effects as well as negative effects in these difficult circumstances, could help all mitigate COVID-19's and future global crises' negative impacts. Aim: Determine the positives and negatives of COVID-19 from older adults' perspective. Design: a descriptive research design was followed. Setting: Sharq ElMadina Hospital outpatient clinics, Alexandria Governorate which affiliated to the Ministry of health, Egypt. Subjects: Convenience sample of 170 older adults were recruited. Tools: Two tools were used for data collection: 1) Older adults socio-demographic and health profile structured interview schedule, 2) Older adults' perception of COVID-19 positives and negatives structured interview schedule. Results: the present study result revealed that the highest COVID-19 positives and negatives mean percent scores as perceived by the study subjects were related to the effect of COVID-19 on their spirituality. The lowest positives mean percent score was related to financial impacts of the pandemic. Also, the lowest negatives mean percent score was in relation to health aspect. Conclusion: Despite the study subjects reported both negative and positive views of COVID-19, the perceived positives mean scores were significantly greater than the negatives they perceived. Recommendations: It's critical for gerontological nurses to provide extra support to study participants who haven't been able to benefit from COVID-19 life changes in terms of seeing the positive aspects of the changes to help their coping. Furthermore, gerontological nurses should assist in learning from the study subjects' positive perspectives in order to improve the health of those who saw low COVID-19 gains. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| COVID-19, older adults; positives; negatives; perspective | ||||
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