Did healthy life awareness affect the behavioral or cognitive avoidance attitude from COVID-19? An observational study
Aim: This study purposed to evaluate the healthy life awareness (HLA) level versus the COVID-19 avoidance attitudes. Materials and Methods: A single-centered observational study was conducted in the Family Medicine Clinics of a tertiary hospital between April 30, 2021 and July 30, 2021. The HLA scal...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2023-11-01
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| Series: | Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2066_22 |
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This study purposed to evaluate the healthy life awareness (HLA) level versus the COVID-19 avoidance attitudes.
Materials and Methods:
A single-centered observational study was conducted in the Family Medicine Clinics of a tertiary hospital between April 30, 2021 and July 30, 2021. The HLA scale was used to determine the participants' HLA levels. In addition, the avoidance attitudes from the COVID-19 scale score assessed attitudes toward avoiding COVID-19. Data were analyzed with E-Picos (MediCRES) Statistical Programme.
Results:
Of the 311 participants aged 30.79 ± 8.37 years, 58.52% (n = 182) were female and 41.48% (n = 129) were male. A negative relationship between the HLA and cognitive avoidance scores (r = −0.255, P < 0.001) and a positive relationship between HLA and behavioral avoidance scores (r = 0.119, P = 0.036) have been indicated. The results of a binary logistic regression, taking the presence of a higher HLA score as the dependent variable, have shown that high awareness was observed in women, approximately 1.7 times more than in men [odds ratio (OR): 1.684, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.058–2.696; P = 0.030]. Participants with high HLA had 1.06 times higher behavioral avoidance scores than others (OR: 1.066, 95% CI = 1.012–1.455; P = 0.049). As the cognitive avoidance score increased, the presence of high HLA decreased by nearly 33%. (OR: 0.666, 95% CI = 0.512–0.867; P = 0.002).
Conclusion:
This study emphasized that a higher HLA was associated with increased behavioral avoidance and decreased cognitive avoidance from COVID-19. HLA has led to doing what needed to be done without being affected by negative discourses. |
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| ISSN: | 2249-4863 2278-7135 |