A5093744429- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Literature Analysis and Criticism
- Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Mental Health Research Topics
University of Alberta
2024
A global pandemic is a hardly typical and anxiety-dampening event. Research in the first year of COVID-19 tells associations between advancing age anxiety dampening. The aim this study was to further investigate by examining creating blueprint older Canadians’ symptoms pandemic-related coping strategies, linkages among them. national e-survey conducted second with 1,327 Canadians, when public health measures lifted. Anxiety were measured using Geriatric Scale - 10. Participants also...
Abstract Background Throughout the COVID‐19 pandemic, older Canadians were most at risk of severe physical harm, including death, and their return to post‐COVID life was expected be especially anxiety‐provoking. A study conducted obtain nationally representative evidence Canadians' self‐perceived anxiety levels strategies manage or mitigate it as public health restrictions lifting. Materials Methods This had a cross‐sectional descriptive design. An e‐survey used collect data from 1327 aged...
At the beginning of July 2022, when public health restrictions were lifted, we deployed a country-wide e-survey about how older people managing now after COVID-19 pandemic-related anxiety. Our responder sample was stratified by age, sex, and education to approximate Canadian population. E-survey responders asked share open-text messages what contemporaries could do live less socially isolated lives at this tenuous turning point following pandemic as virus still lingered. Contracting enhanced...
<title>Abstract</title> Background During the COVID-19 pandemic older adults experienced a variety of symptoms anxiety. They employed number different strategies to deal with these. The aim this study was create blueprint Canadians’ pandemic-related anxiety and coping strategies, linkages among between them. Particular attention paid identifying most-pernicious variables that might facilitate application most beneficial strategies. Methods An e-survey conducted 1,327 Canadians in Summer...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Older people are experts on what a quality social life looks like while living most at risk for COVID-19-related health harms. Canadians have helped raise awareness of the physical and mental detriments isolation. Remedial initiatives that build older people’s lived experiences also important initiatives. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> When public restrictions were lifted in Summer 2022, we aimed to collect evidence grounded everyday about transitioning into...