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Li, Y.-P., Lin, C.-Y., Kuo, Y.-J., Chen, Y.-P. and Griffiths, M.D. 
ORCID: 0000-0001-8880-6524,
2021.
Gender differences in the factors associated with the fear of COVID-19 among Taiwanese older people.
Inquiry: the Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 58.
ISSN 1945-7243
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Abstract
Objectives: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, older people are threatened, and there may be different psychological responses toward COVID-19 between women and men. The present study explored the factors and gender differences related to the fear of COVID-19 among older women and men in Taiwan.
Methods: Geriatric patients (n = 139; 42 men; mean age = 71.73 years) who visited outpatient departments were recruited. They self-reported demographic data and completed questions asking about (i) their fear of COVID-19, (ii) whether they paid attention to COVID-19 news, (iii) whether searched for COVID-19 news, (iv) whether they believed in COVID-19 news, and (v) their preventive COVID-19 behaviors.
Results: Both women and men reported a low fear of COVID-19, paid close attention to COVID-19 news, and practiced good preventive COVID-19 infection behaviors. The perceived chance of COVID-19 infection was a significant factor contributing to the fear of COVID-19 among both women and men. Preventive behaviors had a positive effect in lowering the fear of COVID-19. News about COVID-19 had a negative effect in lowering the fear of the disease among women but not men.
Conclusions: As the performing of preventive COVID-19 infection behaviors was associated with a lower fear of COVID-19, healthcare providers should consider strategies for improving preventive behaviors among older people to help ease their worries and fears concerning COVID-19.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||||
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| Publication Title: | Inquiry: the Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing | ||||||||
| Creators: | Li, Y.-P., Lin, C.-Y., Kuo, Y.-J., Chen, Y.-P. and Griffiths, M.D. | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage | ||||||||
| Date: | 23 November 2021 | ||||||||
| Volume: | 58 | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1945-7243 | ||||||||
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| Rights: | © the author(s) 2021. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher | ||||||||
| Date Added: | 25 Nov 2021 11:50 | ||||||||
| Last Modified: | 24 Jun 2022 08:32 | ||||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/44945 |
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