Aceptación de las medidas de bioseguridad, higiene y restricción frente a la COVID-19 en familias que conviven con adultos mayores de 70 años o más, Cuenca 2020

Abstract

Background: In March 2020, the WHO classified COVID-19 as a pandemic and proposed measures to contain this health problem and consequences. Objective: Describe the acceptance of biosafety, hygiene and social restriction measures against COVID-19, in families living with adults older than 70 years or more, Cuenca 2020. Methodology: It is a descriptive transversal study, the ICP-COVID-19 database, second round was used. For the data analysis and processing we use the SPSS 22.0 v program. The results are presented in tables of frequency and percentages in the qualitative variables and arithmetic mean, mode and standard deviation for the quantitative variables. Results: Highest female sex record with 56,5%, 70.3% belonged to the urban area and the frequency of a one older adult at home was 66.8%; 80.8% had no home moves. In relation to biosafety and hygiene measures they were over 90% except for the most complex ones. In mobility restriction 98,1% did it so except when they went to the market with 78.9%. The mean acceptance was 7.73 (SD = 2.083). Conclusions: The highest frequency of records was obtained from the urban area, most families live in houses or apartments with gardens; in relation to habits, biosecurity and hygiene measures has been adopted in a good way, the mobility restriction was satisfactorily fulfilled. For half of the registries it was difficult to adapt to the change.