COVID-19 and mental health of older Africans: an urgency for public health policy and response strategy

Gyasi, Razak M.

doi:10.1017/s1041610220003312

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“…The current study is based on a specific context in which older adults worldwide face health risks due to the COVID-19 pandemic ( 3 , 38 ). This study focuses on health literacy, health behaviors and practices, and social connectedness of older Chinese adults due to the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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“…For example, Henning-Smith (36) indicated that older adults residing in rural areas have fewer healthcare facilities compared to their urban counterparts. From a global perspective, scholars have also emphasized older adults living in less developed countries and regions because they lack necessary medical and life resources (37)(38)(39).…”

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How Has the Nationwide Public Health Emergency of the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Older Chinese Adults' Health Literacy, Health Behaviors and Practices, and Social Connectedness? Qualitative Evidence From Urban China

Chai

2022

Front. Public Health

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Older Chinese adults' daily lives have been affected significantly during the outbreak phase of the COVID-19 pandemic since January 2020. They were confronted with activity restrictions due to strict pandemic prevention. The older population also had to get accustomed to widely-used modern technologies in community management, such as health codes and WeChat groups. By late 2021, mainland China had reduced the prevalence of COVID-19, and people's daily lives had primarily returned to pre-pandemic normality. Under China's systematic health management during the pandemic, older Chinese adults' responses to this nationwide public health emergency may have influenced their health in the long run. However, it remains unclear what specific health changes or improvements have occurred. Such a void in the literature is worrying, given that older adults are at high health risks due to the pandemic which, might still be with humankind for a while. Thus, it is of necessity to explore and report their health changes after this official, large-scale health intervention. In this study, 17 adults aged 55 and above were recruited as interviewees. All interviewees reside in a community located in Q district, N city of the People's Republic of China. According to the findings, many interviewees now have better literacy in health risk prevention. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) play a significant role in getting access to health information. Specifically, television, WeChat chatting groups, and TikTok could be valuable information sources for older adults. As for the understanding and evaluation of health information, although older participants can distinguish COVID-19 rumors, they may sometimes feel confused about the underlying scientific logic. Regarding changes in health behaviors and practices, many older adults can integrate health information and knowledge into their daily lives. Additionally, although interviewees can keep important social connections, not all of them are familiar with using new ICTs, such as online chatting group, for social participation and engagement. The empirical evidence suggests that both the communities and the local governments can offer specific training programs to older residents for the sake of enhancing their health literacy, health behaviors and practices, and social connectedness during and after the pandemic.

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How Has the Nationwide Public Health Emergency of the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Older Chinese Adults' Health Literacy, Health Behaviors and Practices, and Social Connectedness? Qualitative Evidence From Urban China

Chai

2022

Front. Public Health

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“…6 For instance, individuals discharged from quarantine and self-isolation experience stigmatization and the associated drastic negative impacts on the mental health due to Crucially, the possible mental health effects of stigma on people might be further exacerbated by fear, community rejection and self-isolation. 2,6,16 At the same time, stigmatized people with psychiatric disorders might witness worsening conditions while others might develop new psychological problems as a result of loneliness, anxiety, depression and posttraumatic stress. 12 Psychological and mental sequelae of COVID-19-related stigma are likely to present short-and long-term postpandemic impacts.…”

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Stigma and COVID‐19 crisis: A wake‐up call

Peprah

Gyasi

2020

Health Planning & Management

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To the Editor Public health emergencies in times of epidemics and the effects of contagion mitigation strategies such as emergency lockdown may cause intense fear and anxiety particularly among the at-risk populations. Correia 1 has also emphasized that health systems globally have diverted attention and resources toward the fight of COVID-19. This has significantly hampered the management of other serious health issues such as mental and chronic conditions particularly in low-and middle-income countries where resources for health are often limited. 2 This may certainly have both immediate and long-term deleterious public health impacts during and even beyond the pandemic. More importantly, the emergence of COVID-19 and the concomitant contagions have resulted in prejudices, community rejection and intense stigma against the infected and affected persons. 3-5 The allied neuropsychological impacts on the direct medical issues of the pandemic such disruptions, anxiety, stress, stigma and xenophobia may also cause mayhem in the society and social lives. 6 Pervasive social stigma and discriminatory behaviors are being

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“…e advent of the COVID-19 pandemic has induced many empirical studies on economies, including its impact on mental health [1], food prices [2], interdependencies between COVID-19 and exchange rates in Wuhan [3], COVID-19 and Bitcoin [4], the nexus between equities and cryptocurrencies [5], crude oil and agricultural futures [6], major world markets [7], and mutual information between markets [8], among others. It can be analysed from these studies that the impact of the COVID-19 has disrupted most economic activities including financial markets of which cryptocurrencies and global equities are no exception.…”

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Information Flow between Global Equities and Cryptocurrencies: A VMD‐Based Entropy Evaluating Shocks from COVID‐19 Pandemic

2021

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The world has witnessed the adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Accordingly, it is expected that information transmission between equities and digital assets has been altered due to the hostile impact of the pandemic outbreak on financial markets. As a result, the ensuing perverse risk among markets is presumed to rise during severe uncertainties occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic. The impetus of this study is to examine the degree of asymmetry and nonlinear directional causality between global equities and cryptocurrencies in the frequency domain. Hence, we employ both the variational mode decomposition (VMD) and the Rényi effective transfer entropy techniques. Analyses of the study are presented for three sample periods; these are the full sample period, the pre-COVID-19 period, and the COVID-19 pandemic period. We gauge a mixture of asymmetric and nonlinear bidirectional and unidirectional causality between global equities and cryptocurrencies for the sample periods. However, the COVID-19 pandemic period appears to be driving the estimates for the full sample period, which indicates a negative flow. Thus, the direction and significance of the information flow between the markets for the full sample correspond to the one observed during the COVID-19 pandemic period. We, consequently, establish a significant directional, dynamical, and scale-dependent information flow between global equities and cryptocurrencies. Notwithstanding, throughout the study samples, we mainly find a negative significant information flow from global equities to cryptocurrencies. We detect that most cryptocurrencies exhibit similar behaviour of information flow to global equities for each of the sample periods. The outcome provides pertinent signals to investors with diverse investment horizons who would want to diversify, hedge, or employ cryptocurrencies as a safe haven for global equities during uncertainties, specifically the COVID-19 pandemic.

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COVID-19 and mental health of older Africans: an urgency for public health policy and response strategy

Cited by 22 publications

References 28 publications

How Has the Nationwide Public Health Emergency of the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Older Chinese Adults' Health Literacy, Health Behaviors and Practices, and Social Connectedness? Qualitative Evidence From Urban China

How Has the Nationwide Public Health Emergency of the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Older Chinese Adults' Health Literacy, Health Behaviors and Practices, and Social Connectedness? Qualitative Evidence From Urban China

Stigma and COVID‐19 crisis: A wake‐up call

Information Flow between Global Equities and Cryptocurrencies: A VMD‐Based Entropy Evaluating Shocks from COVID‐19 Pandemic

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