Adaptive behaviors on new normal after the COVID -19 epidemic of elderly in elderly club at Ban Pong District in Ratchaburi Province

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to examine adaptive behaviors on new normal of elderly after the epidemic situation of COVID-19, and to compare their the adaptive behaviors based on the Roy Adaptation Model among those who had personal data differences.. A sample of 120 elderly was purposively selected. The research instruments consisted of  a questionnaire on personal data including community characteristics, income, disease, and perception of COVID-19 information, and 2) the adaptive behaviors on new normal assessment including the  physiologic mode, the self-concept mode, the role function mode, and the interdependence mode. Its content validity index was 0.89  and the reliability coefficient was 0.82. Descriptive statistics, and t-test were used in data analysis. The results revealed that the adaptive behaviors on new normal after the epidemic situation of COVID-19 of elderly was at the very good level, and those in the urban area had better adaptive behaviors than those in the rural area.