Elderly people and responses to COVID-19 in 27 Countries
Elderly people and responses to COVID-19 in 27 Countries
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0235590
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发表时间：
2020-07-02
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Daoust, J. -F.
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作者：
Daoust, J. -F.
与 COVID-19 疾病相关的最强有力的共识是，老年人是迄今为止最脆弱的人群。因此，公共当局以老年人为目标，以说服他们遵守预防措施。然而，我们对老年人对这些措施的态度和遵守情况仍然知之甚少。在这项研究中，我的目标是利用来自 27 个国家的数据来加深我们对老年人对这一流行病的反应的了解。结果令人惊讶且相当令人不安。老年人的反应与 50 多岁和 60 多岁的同胞的反应基本相似。这项研究 (i) 从比较的角度首次全面描述了最弱势群体的态度和依从性 (ii) 表明政府针对老年人的策略远未成功，(iii) 表明从方法上讲，我们应该更加谨慎地对待年龄对 COVID-19 相关结果具有线性影响的情况。
Amongst the most robust consensus related to the COVID-19 disease is that the elderly are by far the most vulnerable population group. Hence, public authorities target older people in order to convince them to comply with preventive measures. However, we still know little about older people's attitudes and compliance toward these measures. In this research, I aim to improve our understanding of elderly people's responses to the pandemic using data from 27 countries. Results are surprising and quite troubling. Elderly people's response is substantially similar to their fellow citizens in their 50's and 60's. This research (i) provides the first thorough description of the most vulnerable population's attitudes and compliance in a comparative perspective (ii) suggest that governments' strategies toward elderly people are far from successful and (iii) shows that methodologically, we should be more cautious in treating age as having a linear effect on COVID-19 related outcomes.