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ArticleBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2022

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Quality of Life and Happiness of Care Home Residents in Croatia: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Michael Olumekor, Andrea Stojić, Tatjana Kehler, Francesco Polo

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Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Michael OlumekorGraduate School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University, 620014 Yekaterinburg, Russia.ORCID 0000-0002-1764-2240
Andrea StojićFaculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0002-8847-2912
Tatjana KehlerFaculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0003-4228-1632
Francesco PoloCultural Centre Humanitas in Conegliano, 31015 Treviso, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1939-8365

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Abstract

Care/nursing homes globally have been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and have disproportionately experienced a high rate of mortality which led to the introduction of strict isolation policies. However, while there are studies on the mortality, epidemiology, staffing challenges, and mismanagement in long-term care homes as a result of COVID-19, there appears to be a paucity of information regarding the Quality of Life (QoL), happiness, and associated well-being of the elderly residents of these homes. Therefore, we examined if COVID-19 affected the happiness level, QoL, and financial condition of long-term care home residents in Croatia. To achieve this, a survey of 308 participants in eight long term care homes was conducted. Descriptive analysis was performed to describe the mean of all responses and the Bayesian Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation (INLA) was used to provide a detailed quantitative analysis of the results. We found that the QoL and happiness of residents remained relatively stable during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the income level, financial outlook, marital status, and vaccination positivity influenced the QoL and happiness of care home residents to a considerable degree. We recommend that policy makers pay attention to these underlying factors.

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care homesCOVID-19elderlyhappinessnursing homesquality of lifewell-being

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