Effect of Fear, Concern, and of Risk Factors for Complicated Covid-19 on Self-Care in People in Pre-elderly and Elderly Stages.
Josué Arturo Medina-Fernández, Isaí Arturo Medina-Fernández, Nissa Yaing Torres-Soto and 3 others
PMID 36867783WHAT IT FOUND
Among adults aged 45 and older, higher fear and concern about COVID-19 were linked to less self-care.
More risk factors were linked to more fear, concern and self-care. Fear and concern together accounted for 14% of self-care.
Key findings
01Greater self-care was associated with lower fear and concern, while more risk factors were associated with greater fear, concern and self-care.
02Concern and fear together accounted for 14% of self-care in the prediction model.
03Older participants reported greater fear, concern and self-care than pre-elderly participants, and the difference was significant only for self-care.
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What it does not show
Participants were recruited through convenience sampling on the internet and social networks, so they may not represent all adults aged 45 or older in Mexico. The design was correlational, not an intervention study, so it cannot show that changing fear or concern changes self-care. The authors state that sample size limits generalisation and that other mediating variables may need to be included.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that reducing fear or concern will improve self-care. The study was correlational and the combined effect of concern and fear accounted for 14% of self-care, so it cannot prove cause.