Effects of vaccination against COVID-19 on the emotional health of older adults.

Autor:	Alarcon-Ruiz CA; Dirección de Investigación en Salud, Instituto de Evaluación de Tecnologías en Salud e Investigación - IETSI, EsSalud, Lima, Peru., Romero-Albino Z; Gerencia de la Persona Adulta Mayor y Prestaciones Sociales, EsSalud, Lima, Peru.; Carrera de Medicina Humana, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Peru., Soto-Becerra P; Dirección de Investigación en Salud, Instituto de Evaluación de Tecnologías en Salud e Investigación - IETSI, EsSalud, Lima, Peru., Huarcaya-Victoria J; Unidad de Psiquiatría de Enlace, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, EsSalud, Lima, Peru.; Escuela Profesional de Medicina Humana, Universidad Privada San Juan Bautista, Filial, Peru., Runzer-Colmenares FM; Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru., Romani-Huacani E; Asociación benéfica PRISMA, Lima, Peru.; Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Cesar Vallejo, Lima, Peru., Villarreal-Zegarra D; Instituto Peruano de Orientación Psicológica, Lima, Peru.; South American Center for Education and Research in Public Health, Universidad Privada Norbert Weiner, Lima, Peru., Maguiña JL; Dirección de Investigación en Salud, Instituto de Evaluación de Tecnologías en Salud e Investigación - IETSI, EsSalud, Lima, Peru., Apolaya-Segura M; Dirección de Investigación en Salud, Instituto de Evaluación de Tecnologías en Salud e Investigación - IETSI, EsSalud, Lima, Peru., Cuba-Fuentes S; Gerencia de la Persona Adulta Mayor y Prestaciones Sociales, EsSalud, Lima, Peru.; Facultad de Medicina Alberto Hurtado, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	F1000Research [F1000Res] 2023 May 16; Vol. 11, pp. 868. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 16 (Print Publication: 2022).
DOI:	10.12688/f1000research.123395.2
Abstrakt:	Background: The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted the mental and emotional health of the elderly, especially those from low to middle-income countries. However, COVID-19 vaccination may reduce this influence. Therefore, we aimed to estimate the effect of vaccination against COVID-19 on the emotional health of older adults. Methods: We selected a national, random, and stratified sample of non-hospitalized adults aged 60 to 79 years from Peru who intended to receive or had already received the COVID-19 vaccine during recruitment. During June and July 2021, the assessed outcomes were the fear, anxiety, and worry about COVID-19, general anxiety, and depression at baseline and after a month. We estimated the adjusted odds ratios (aOR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) for each altered emotional health outcomes in those who had one and two doses, compared with those who were not vaccinated using multilevel logistic regression with mixed effects. Results: We recruited 861 older adults with 20.8% of loss to follow-up. At baseline, 43.9% had received only one dose of the vaccine, and 49.1% had two doses. In the analysis during follow-up, those who had two doses had less fear (aOR: 0.19; CI 95%: 0.07 to 0.51) and anxiety to COVID-19 (aOR: 0.45; CI 95%: 0.22 to 0.89), compared to unvaccinated. We observed no effects in those with only one dose. Conclusions: Two doses of COVID-19 vaccination in older adults improves their perception of COVID-19 infection consequences. This information could be integrated into the vaccination campaign as an additional beneficial effect. Competing Interests: No competing interests were disclosed. (Copyright: © 2023 Alarcon-Ruiz CA et al.)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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