Fedayi Ya?ar
Fear of COVID-19 and Its Association With Health Literacy in Elderly Patients
Kahramanmara? Sütçü ?mam University
one groups negatively affected epidemic process elderly patients process great importance determine fear levels patients evaluate factors may related approach study aimed examine relationship fear covid19 health literacy scores elderly patients living kahramanmara city turkey another aim study investigate whether participants covid19 fear change according various sociodemographic characteristics convenience sampling method used 266 valid samples collected descriptive statistics ttest anova pearson correlation analysis simple multiple linear regression analysis techniques used results obtained study showed covid19 fear status participants moderate health literacy scores low higher health literacy associated lower fear covid19 addition determined fear covid19 showed statistically significant differences according education level insurance status smoking status follow news status marital status result observed level health literacy effective protecting elderly patients fear longitudinal studies proposed determine whether relationship causal