Impact of Fear due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Level of Compliance in Preventive Precautions on the Status of Home Health Care Services Utilization and Attitudes on Home Care

Year 2025, Volume: 35 Issue: 1, 42 - 51, 28.02.2025

Pınar Duru , Özlem Örsal , Dilruba Binboğa

https://doi.org/10.54005/geneltip.1490314

Abstract

Background/Aims: To determine the impact of the fear of the society due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the level of compliance in preventive precautions on the status of home health care services utilization and the attitudes of home care services.
Material and Methods: This study was cross-sectional and administered through a web-based survey. The present study focuses on the 5,467 participants’ responses. “Fear of COVID-19 Scale” was used to determine the fear of COVID-19 and "Attitude Scale for Home Care" to determine the attitude towards home care services on individuals.
Results: Higher levels of COVID-19 fear have a positive effect on the attitude toward home care and significantly explained receiving more home health care services. Participants' compliance level with precautionary behavior practices or preventive measures related to COVID-19 had a direct effect on their attitude for home care. However, higher compliance level with precautionary behavior practices or preventive measures related to COVID-19 have a negative effect on the receiving home health care services.
Conclusions: Our results showed that it is possible to improve the attitude for home care by promoting compliance level with precautionary behavior practices or preventive measures.

Keywords

COVID-19, Fear, Home Care, Home Health Care, Pandemics

Ethical Statement

First, permission to use the scales was obtained from the authors who developed the scales used in this study. For the study, the approval of the Ministry of Health Scientific Research Platform dated 25/06/2020, the institutional approval of the Eskisehir Public Health Directorate dated 02/02/2021, and the ethical approval of the Eskisehir Osmangazi University Non-Interventional Clinical Research Ethics Committee dated 14/07/2020 (No:39) were obtained.

Thanks

The authors would like to thank all individuals who participated in this study.

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