ArticleAging clinical and experimental research2021
Coronavirus-related health literacy and perceived restrictiveness of protective measures among community-dwelling older persons in Finland.
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- Association between COVID-related health literacy and vaccine acceptance: results of a nationwide cross-sectional study in Hungary.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Health-related resources and social support as enablers of digital device use among older Finns.Journal of public health (Berlin, Germany) · 2025Article
- How Technology, Health Information Seeking, and Socioeconomic Factors Are Associated With Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination Readiness in Estonians Over 50 Years?Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2024Article
- "It Bothered Me": The Mental Burden of COVID-19 Media Reports on Community-Dwelling Elderly People.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Challenges related to self-assessment of active ageing during the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden.BMC research notes · 2022Observational
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Abstract
backgroundOlder people with limited health literacy may encounter difficulties in finding relevant information on COVID-19, understanding its relevance, and complying with recommended protective measures. Complying with such recommendations has required older as well as younger persons to change their daily lives in ways that have reduced their opportunities for engaging in many activities meaningful to them.
aimsTo find out from what sources older people have obtained information on protective measures, the level of their coronavirus-related health literacy (CHL), and whether CHL is associated with their perceptions of the restrictiveness of coronavirus-related protective measures.
methods696 Finnish men and women aged over 77 answered a mailed questionnaire on their CHL, sources of information and perceptions of the restrictiveness of the recommended protective measures. The association of CHL with perceived restrictiveness was studied using multinomial logistic regression analysis.
resultsTelevision and newspapers were the most frequently reported sources of information. Reporting high confidence in the ability to assess how one's behavior influences coronavirus infection risk was associated with higher odds of perceiving the protective measures to be highly restrictive, when controlling for age, gender, and difficulty in using digital devices (OR 3.21, 95% CI 1.09, 9.46). DISCUSSION: Participants who reported being highly confident about their ability to appraise the influence of their behavior on their susceptibility to coronavirus infection were more likely to perceive that the recommended protective measures had restricted their daily lives.
conclusionsHealth literacy plays a role in complying with recommended restrictions.
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