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Barriers to learning a new technology to go online among older adults during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Li, Weixin ; Ornstein, Katherine A. ; Li, Yan ; Liu, Bian

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS), 2021-11, Vol.69 (11), p.3051-3057 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Hoboken, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc

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  • Título:
    Barriers to learning a new technology to go online among older adults during the COVID‐19 pandemic
  • Autor: Li, Weixin ; Ornstein, Katherine A. ; Li, Yan ; Liu, Bian
  • Assuntos: Aged ; Aging ; Attitude to Computers ; Attitude to Health ; barriers ; Brief Report ; Communication Barriers ; Consumer Health Information - statistics & numerical data ; Coronaviruses ; COVID-19 ; COVID‐19‐Related Content ; Female ; Health care ; Health Services Accessibility - statistics & numerical data ; Humans ; information and communication technology (ICT) ; Information Seeking Behavior ; Information Technology - statistics & numerical data ; Internet ; learn a new technology ; Learning ; Male ; older adults ; Older people ; Pandemics ; Regression analysis ; Sociodemographics ; United States
  • É parte de: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS), 2021-11, Vol.69 (11), p.3051-3057
  • Notas: Funding information
    This study is in part funded by a grant from the National Institute on Aging (5P30AG028741‐07) awarded to the Claude D Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) is sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (grant number NIA U01AG032947) and is conducted at the Johns Hopkins University.
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    Funding information This study is in part funded by a grant from the National Institute on Aging (5P30AG028741‐07) awarded to the Claude D Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) is sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (grant number NIA U01AG032947) and is conducted at the Johns Hopkins University.
  • Descrição: Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has highlighted the importance of using information and communication technology (ICT) to address daily and healthcare needs. The barriers for older adults in the United States to learn a new technology to go online during the pandemic remain to be studied. Methods Using data from the 2019–2020 National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS), a nationally representative survey of older Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years and older in the United States, we used multivariable logistic regression models to identify sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with learning a new technology to go online during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Results Our sample represented 23,547,688 older adults nationally, of which the majority (60.2%) increased ICT use during the COVID‐19 pandemic. However, most older adults (71.8%) did not report learning a new technology to go online. Those who did not learn a new technology to go online had less of an increase in ICT use than those who learned either with help or by themselves (50.7% vs. 78.4% or 89.2% respectively, p < 0.01). The odds of learning a new technology decreased with increasing age (aOR [95%CI] = 0.96 [0.94–0.98]), being male (aOR [95%CI] = 0.56 [0.45–0.72]), having lower than high school educational attainment (aOR [95%CI] = 0.38 [0.29–0.50]), decreasing income levels (aORs ranged from 0.28 to 0.54), and self‐reported fair or poor general health (aOR [95%CI] = 0.65 [0.47–0.90]). Conclusion The identified sociodemographic and clinical factors could inform targeted intervention strategies to improve ICT use among older adults during the evolving COVID‐19 pandemic and in the future.
  • Editor: Hoboken, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
  • Idioma: Inglês
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