Department of Physical Therapy, Speech Therapy and Occupational Therapy, Medical School, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Aging Ment Health. 2022 Oct;26(10):2120-2127. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2021.2003296. Epub 2021 Nov 22.
The World Health Organization has recommended social isolation to prevent the transmission of COVID-19. Thus, feelings of loneliness, sedentary behavior, and predisposition to falls have been reported more often due to the adoption of social isolation, especially for older adults. The objective of this study was to compare older adults' loneliness, sedentary behavior, and occurrence of falls before and during social isolation due to the pandemic as well as to analyze the association of loneliness with sedentary lifestyle and falls in older adults.
Retrospective analytical study conducted through an online survey with older adults from Brazilian states in social isolation, approved by the Research Ethics Committee (number 32168920.0.0000.0068).
There was a significant increase in loneliness and sedentary behavior during social isolation (-value < 0.05 for both), but no increase was observed for falls (-value = 0.615). There was no correlation between the outcomes, nor was there a correlation between the outcomes and the number of days in social isolation.
The results of this research show that adoption of social isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic brought an increase in sedentary behavior and loneliness for older adults but had no effect on the number of falls.
世界卫生组织建议采取社会隔离措施以防止 COVID-19 的传播。因此，由于采取了社会隔离措施，孤独感、久坐行为和跌倒倾向变得更加常见，尤其是老年人。本研究的目的是比较老年人在因疫情而实施社会隔离前后的孤独感、久坐行为和跌倒发生情况，并分析孤独感与老年人久坐行为和跌倒的相关性。
这是一项通过在线调查对巴西各州处于社会隔离状态的老年人进行的回顾性分析研究，该研究已获得研究伦理委员会的批准（编号为 32168920.0.0000.0068）。
在社会隔离期间，孤独感和久坐行为显著增加（两者的 - 值均<0.05），但跌倒发生率没有增加（- 值=0.615）。各结果之间无相关性，也与社会隔离天数之间无相关性。
本研究结果表明，由于 COVID-19 大流行而采取的社会隔离措施使老年人的久坐行为和孤独感增加，但对跌倒次数没有影响。
