The Impact of COVID-19 on the Quality of Life and Happiness of Care Home Residents in Croatia: A Cross-Sectional Study
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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Quality of Life and Happiness of Care Home Residents in Croatia: A Cross-Sectional Study
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Olumekor, M.
Stojić, A. Kehler, T. Polo, F. |
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CARE HOMES
COVID-19 ELDERLY HAPPINESS NURSING HOMES QUALITY OF LIFE WELL-BEING |
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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. © 2022 by the authors.
Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Minobrnauka Ural Federal University, UrFU Author M.O. gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (Ural Federal University project within the Priority-2030 program). Moreover, we sincerely appreciate the extraordinary support we received from the staff of all Care/Nursing homes involved in this study. Finally, we sincerely appreciate the feedbacks of Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, and the two anonymous reviewers. |
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2024-04-08T11:06:52Z
2024-04-08T11:06:52Z 2022 |
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Article
Journal article (info:eu-repo/semantics/article) Published version (info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion) |
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Olumekor, M, Stojić, A, Kehler, T & Polo, F 2022, 'The Impact of COVID-19 on the Quality of Life and Happiness of Care Home Residents in Croatia: A Cross-Sectional Study', Behavioral Sciences, Том. 12, № 11, 463. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs12110463
Olumekor, M., Stojić, A., Kehler, T., & Polo, F. (2022). The Impact of COVID-19 on the Quality of Life and Happiness of Care Home Residents in Croatia: A Cross-Sectional Study. Behavioral Sciences, 12(11), [463]. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs12110463 2076-328X Final All Open Access; Gold Open Access; Green Open Access https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/12/11/463/pdf?version=1669284890 https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/12/11/463/pdf?version=1669284890 http://elar.urfu.ru/handle/10995/131357 10.3390/bs12110463 85149476138 000894683900001 |
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en
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Open access (info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess)
cc-by https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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application/pdf
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MDPI
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Behavioral Sciences
Behavioral Sciences |
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