Feasibility of a telephone-delivered educational intervention for knowledge transfer of COVID-19-related information to older adults in Hong Kong: a pre-post-pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

During the COVID-19 pandemic, educational interventions have become necessary to prevent the spread of health-related misinformation among Hong Kong older adults. The primary objective of this study was to assess the feasibility of a student-led, telephone-delivered intervention to improve COVID-19-related health knowledge among Hong Kong older adults. The secondary objective was to evaluate the impact of the intervention on the student volunteers.

Methods

Twenty-five participants aged 65 or above who were able to communicate in Cantonese and had no hearing or cognitive impairments were recruited for this longitudinal pre-post-study from a community center in Hong Kong. The pilot telephone-delivered intervention consisted of five telephone call sessions conducted

SUBMITTER: Fung MY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9535844 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature