COVID-19 risk perceptions and precautions among the elderly: A study of CALD adults in South Australia

Mohammad Hamiduzzaman; Noore Siddiquee; Helen McLaren

doi:10.12688/f1000research.74631.1

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COVID-19 risk perceptions and precautions among the elderly: A study of CALD adults in South Australia

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COVID-19 risk perceptions and precautions among the elderly: A study of CALD adults in South Australia

Mohammad Hamiduzzaman, Noore Siddiquee and Helen McLaren

F1000 research, Vol.11(43)

13/01/2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.74631.1

PMID: 35356314

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emergency preparedness

risk perceptions

older adults

behavioural dimensions

Culturally and linguistically diverse community

health precautions

South Australia

Background: Coping with COVID-19 is a challenge for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) older adults. In Australia, little attention has been given to understanding associations between cultural contexts, health promotion, and socio-emotional and mental health challenges of older CALD adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, we have collected data from older CALD adults to examine their COVID-19 risk perceptions and its association with their health precautions, behavioural dimensions and emergency preparation. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in South Australia. The CALD population aged 60 years and above were approached through 11 South Australian multicultural NGOs. Results: We provide the details of 155 older CALD South Australians’ demographics, risk perceptions, health precautions (problem-and-emotion-focused), behavioural dimensions and emergency preparation. The explanatory variables included demographic characteristics (age, gender, education and ethnicity); and risk perception (cognitive [likelihood of being affected] and affective dimension [fear and general concerns], and psychometric paradigm [severity, controllability, and personal impact]. The outcome measure variables were health precautions (problem-focused and emotion-focused), behavioral adaptions and emergency preparation. Conclusions: This dataset may help the researchers who investigate multicultural health or aged care in the pandemic and or who may have interest to link with other datasets and secondary use of this primary dataset in order to develop culturally tailored pandemic-related response plan.

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Title: COVID-19 risk perceptions and precautions among the elderly: A study of CALD adults in South Australia
Creators: Mohammad Hamiduzzaman - University of Newcastle Australia
Noore Siddiquee - Flinders University
Helen McLaren - Flinders University
Publication Details: F1000 research, Vol.11(43)
Publisher: Faculty of 1000 Ltd.
Grant note: 01.455.10977-2020 / Flinders University Internal College COVID Grant
Identifiers: 991013093612402368
Copyright: Copyright: © 2022 Hamiduzzaman M et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Academic Unit: Faculty of Health
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

COVID-19 risk perceptions and precautions among the elderly: A study of CALD adults in South Australia

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