Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)

The Mediating Effect of Social Support – A Study on the Effect of Social Participation on the Recovery of Trauma in COVID-19 Elderly Patients

Authors
Xiaoping Feng1, a, Kaixin Hu2, Liyi Chen3, Zeyi Liu4, Xiaoli Yao5
1School of Literature, Law and Economics, Wuhan University Of Science And Technology
2School of Literature, Law and Economics, Wuhan University Of Science And Technology
3School of Literature, Law and Economics, Wuhan University Of Science And Technology
4School of Literature, Law and Economics, Wuhan University Of Science And Technology
5School of Literature, Law and Economics, Wuhan University Of Science And Technology
Corresponding Author
Xiaoping Feng
Available Online 24 December 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211220.130How to use a DOI?
Keywords
COVID-19; mental health recovery; elderly patients; social participation; social support
Abstract

The outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic has caused more severe trauma, especially psychological trauma, to the physically and psychologically vulnerable elderly patient population. Even after the elderly patients have recovered from the disease, the psychological trauma continues to have a negative impact on both the physical and mental health of the elderly patients, causing them unable to live as usual. In this study, using the case study approach of qualitative research, we conducted semi-structured interviews with two representative and typical cases of elderly patients to develop in-depth knowledge of the process of mental health recovery after physical healing. The study suggests that for promoting the mental health recovery of elderly patients with COVID-19, it is important to improve the level of social support for elderly patients while encouraging them to actively participate in social activities, so that elderly patients can achieve better self-reconstruction and thus be able to actively cope with the negative social feedback they may face during activities participation and improve the effect of social participation on mental health recovery.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
24 December 2021
ISBN
978-94-6239-495-7
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211220.130How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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