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Community-Level Social Support to Mitigate the Impact of Combined Frailty and Multimorbidity on Psychological Distress Among Rural Chinese Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Multilevel Modeling Study.

Yi WangPeipei FuJie LiTingting GaoZhengyue JingQiong WangDan ZhaoChengchao Zhou
Published in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2023)
Our findings suggest that more public health and clinical attention should be paid to psychological distress among multimorbid older adults with frailty when facing public health emergencies. This research also suggests that community-level interventions prioritizing social support mechanisms, specifically improving the average levels of social support within communities, may be an effective approach to alleviate psychological distress for rural older adults who concurrently manifest frailty and multimorbidity.
Keyphrases
  • social support
  • public health
  • community dwelling
  • physical activity
  • depressive symptoms
  • sleep quality
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  • mental health
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  • middle aged