Claudia I. Martínez-Alcalá|Alejandra Rosales-Lagarde|Yonal M. Pérez-Pérez|José Sócrates López?Noguerola|María L. Bautista-Díaz|Raúl Azael Agis-Juárez
The Effects of Covid-19 on the Digital Literacy of the Elderly: Norms for Digital Inclusion
Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencias y Tecnologías|Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo|Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencias y Tecnologías|Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría|Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo|Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo|Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México|Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo
current sanitary crisis due covid19 evidenced enormous digital exclusion older adults furthermore crisis urged older adults adopt new technologies facilitate tasks well provide effective means loneliness social isolation caused confinement light digital literacy necessary excluded digital era characterized mainly little ability effectively use technologies nevertheless detailed studies showing leap mixed blended learning bl digital literacy elderly published objective present research analyze level digital literacy digital literacy evaluation dile two groups elderly adults different levels literacy group 1 g1 group 2 g2 three stages bl augdec 2019 transition febjun 2020 digital augdec 2020 comparisons made educational level preprepre educational level postpostpost consecutive periods semester pre vs post throughout different educational levels g1 basic 1 b1 basic 2 b2 intermediate 1 i1 g2 intermediate 1 3 i1 i2 i3 subsequently considering elderly passed least one literacy levels worked total sample 176 older adults comparisons showed pandemic g1s pre digital literacy levels increased b1 b2 differences continued increasing trend b1 level i1 completely digital treatment observed post measurements hand g2 differences dile statistically significant precondition i2 pandemic i3 completely digital treatment preconditions i1 i3 results obtained post treatments also pre vs post scores dile statistically significant older adults increased progressively digital literacy despite covid19 pandemic jumped digital age