Adaptive modes of adult men during COVID-19: qualitative analysis under Roy's model.
Vinícius de Oliveira Muniz, Anderson Reis de Sousa, Thiago da Silva Santana and 5 others
PMID 36867787WHAT IT FOUND
Brazilian men described pandemic shifts in sleep, eating, exercise, emotions, family roles and phone use.
Some adopted self-care and study habits, while anxiety, insomnia and marital isolation persisted. Use as context for assessing men's health behaviors, not proof of an intervention.
Key findings
01Sleep, eating and physical activity patterns fluctuated, with both worsening and improvement described.
02Men reported anxiety, panic attacks, stress and irritability, while also trying to manage emotions through meditation, reading and contact with others.
03Relationship themes included marital loneliness, more household and childcare tasks, and excessive cell phone use.
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What it does not show
Recruitment was by snowball sampling through social networks and dating apps, so it likely reached men with smartphones, internet access and comfort with those platforms. Participants were mostly heterosexual, cisgender, mixed race, higher education, single, urban and not elderly, and they reported no COVID-19 or sequelae attributed to it, so the findings may not apply to older men, men with illness, or less privileged groups. Data came from self-administered online forms without dialogue, so themes could not be probed or clarified. The study describes adaptation themes; it does not test whether nursing advice or any intervention improves sleep, eating, activity or mental health.
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The easy way to misread this
Do not read the proposed nursing interventions as evidence they improve adaptation. The study described self-reported themes from men and did not test any intervention.