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Social Participation of British Patients Aged Sixty Five Years and Over Living in Kyrenia: a Descriptive Study Based on a Number of Activities

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The objective of this study was to assess the social participation features of mostly British patients aged ≥65 years admitted to a university hospital in Northern Cyprus. The data of this descriptive study were collected by a questionnaire, analysed by SPSS 18.0 statistical program and subjected to descriptive statistical analysis. Complete dependency in performing daily activities was expressed by 5% or less of the patients. The age group >70 years needed more assistance and the comparison of the age groups revealed a significant difference in favor of the ≤70 age group, with activities declining seriously >70. The higher the educational status, the more participants tend to perform social activities. The results show that most of the social activities decline seriously by age. University education was influential positively on level of social activities and independency. Measures to facilitate social participation of aging people are needed in Northern Cyprus.

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Limitations

This is a descriptive study, giving only clues for the social participation of only 189 British people aged 65 years and over, living in Cyprus. No valid measurement scale was used for the assessment of social activities and social participation. The social participation of the participants was evaluated descriptively according to only age, sex and educational status.

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  1. Faculty of Medicine, Public Health Department, Near East University, Yakın Doğu Bulvarı, Residence No. 28/16, Nicosia, Mersin 10, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

    Ozen Asut, Songul Vaizoglu & Sanda Cali

  2. Nicosia, Cyprus

    Nur Alshanableh, Inaam Raed & Osman Cihan Tuna

  3. University of Kyrenia Hospital, Kyrenia, Cyprus

    Ozgur Turk

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Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

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The survey was conducted after the permission of the Deanery of the Near East University (NEU) Faculty of Medicine and the approval of the NEU Scientific Research Ethics Committee (Report dated 23.03.2017, No.2017/45, Project no: 382). The questionnaires were anonymous. All procedures performed involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committees and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

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Asut, O., Vaizoglu, S., Alshanableh, N. et al. Social Participation of British Patients Aged Sixty Five Years and Over Living in Kyrenia: a Descriptive Study Based on a Number of Activities. Ageing Int 44, 250–261 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12126-018-9322-1

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