Department of Occupational Therapy, Gyeonggi Provincial Medical Center, Anseong, Korea.
Department of Occupational Therapy, College of Software and Digital Healthcare Convergence, Yonsei University, Wonju, Korea.
BMC Geriatr. 2024 Apr 2;24(1):306. doi: 10.1186/s12877-023-04646-y.
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has greatly impacted older adults, resulting in many deaths. The impact of lifestyle and mental health on vulnerable groups, such as older adults, can be large and long lasting. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effects of COVID-19 confirmation on cognition, lifestyle, mental health, and quality of life in adults aged 55 years.
The sample consisted of 111 people in the COVID group and 189 people in the non-COVID group aged over 55 years in South Korea. An online survey was conducted between January and May 2022. Participants responded to the following assessment tools: Yonsei Lifestyle Profile, Prospective and Retrospective Memory (PRMQ), Subjective Memory Complaints Questionnaire (SMCQ), Visual Analogue Scale, Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19 S), and the World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale abbreviated version (WHOQOL-BREF). Differences in lifestyle, cognition, depression, anxiety, and quality of life were compared between the two groups.
There were significant differences in physical activity, diet, the total score of the PRMQ, PM (a sub-score of the PRMQ), PHQ-9, Korean version of the ISI (ISI-K), and WHOQOL-BREF scores between the COVID and non-COVID groups. However, there were no significant differences in activity participation, Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), or FCV-19 S between groups.
The study confirms that COVID-19 negatively affects memory, physical activity, diet, quality of life, depression, and insomnia in the older adults. Therefore, this study implicated that prevention and intervention strategies required improving the memory, lifestyle, and mental health of older adults with COVID-19.
The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and approved by the Institutional Review Board of Yonsei university in Korea (Registration number: 1041849-202112-SB-226-03, Date of registration: 01042022).
冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行对老年人影响很大，导致许多人死亡。生活方式和心理健康对老年人等弱势群体的影响可能很大且持久。因此，本研究旨在调查 COVID-19 确诊对 55 岁以上成年人认知、生活方式、心理健康和生活质量的影响。
该研究的样本包括韩国 111 名 COVID 组和 189 名非 COVID 组的 55 岁以上人群。在线调查于 2022 年 1 月至 5 月进行。参与者回答了以下评估工具：延世生活方式问卷、前瞻性和回溯性记忆（PRMQ）、主观记忆抱怨问卷（SMCQ）、视觉模拟量表、患者健康问卷-9（PHQ-9）、失眠严重指数（ISI-K）、COVID-19 恐惧量表（FCV-19S）和世界卫生组织生活质量量表简表（WHOQOL-BREF）。比较了两组之间的生活方式、认知、抑郁、焦虑和生活质量的差异。
COVID 组和非 COVID 组在体力活动、饮食、PRMQ 总分、PM（PRMQ 的一个子评分）、PHQ-9、ISI-K 和 WHOQOL-BREF 评分方面存在显著差异。然而，两组在活动参与度、焦虑自评量表（SAS）或 FCV-19S 方面没有显著差异。
该研究证实 COVID-19 对老年人的记忆、体力活动、饮食、生活质量、抑郁和失眠产生负面影响。因此，本研究表明，需要制定预防和干预策略来改善 COVID-19 老年患者的记忆力、生活方式和心理健康。
本研究符合赫尔辛基宣言的规定，并得到了韩国延世大学机构审查委员会的批准（注册号：1041849-202112-SB-226-03，注册日期：2022 年 04 月 01 日）。
