Social isolation due to COVID-19: impact on loneliness, sedentary behavior, and falls in older adults
| Autor: | Erika Christina Gouveia E Silva, Cristina Petravicius Bomfim, Mayara Assis Kovachich de Oliveira, Thaiany Pedrozo Campos Antunes, Beatriz Caruso Soares, Juliana de Faria Xavier, L. Viveiro, Fernanda Grazielli Mendes, Daniele Alves Costa, José Eduardo Pompeu, Kung Su Hsien |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Gerontology
medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Falls in older adults Pandemic medicine Humans Social isolation Pandemics Aged Retrospective Studies Sedentary lifestyle media_common Geriatrics Research ethics Loneliness COVID-19 Psychiatry and Mental health Social Isolation Feeling Accidental Falls Sedentary Behavior Geriatrics and Gerontology Pshychiatric Mental Health medicine.symptom Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Aging & Mental Health. 26:2120-2127 |
| ISSN: | 1364-6915 1360-7863 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13607863.2021.2003296 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVES: The World Health Organization has recommended social isolation to prevent the transmission of COVID-19. Thus, feelings of loneliness, sedentary behavior, and predisposition to falls have been reported more often due to the adoption of social isolation, especially for older adults. The objective of this study was to compare older adults' loneliness, sedentary behavior, and occurrence of falls before and during social isolation due to the pandemic as well as to analyze the association of loneliness with sedentary lifestyle and falls in older adults. METHOD: Retrospective analytical study conducted through an online survey with older adults from Brazilian states in social isolation, approved by the Research Ethics Committee (number 32168920.0.0000.0068). RESULTS: There was a significant increase in loneliness and sedentary behavior during social isolation (p-value < 0.05 for both), but no increase was observed for falls (p-value = 0.615). There was no correlation between the outcomes, nor was there a correlation between the outcomes and the number of days in social isolation. CONCLUSION: The results of this research show that adoption of social isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic brought an increase in sedentary behavior and loneliness for older adults but had no effect on the number of falls. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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