Impacts of Covid-19 on older people’s psychological health: Protocol

This report presents a protocol for a qualitative systematic review examining the impacts of Covid-19 on the psychological health of older adults. The research aims to critically appraise the use of research methodology, focusing on the effects of isolation and changes in mental well-being. The background highlights existing research, particularly in the UK and Hong Kong, emphasizing the effects of social distancing and loneliness. The study employs the PICO method to formulate research questions, focusing on the population (older adults in the UK), intervention (pre-Covid-19 mental health), comparison (different age groups), and outcome (coping mechanisms). The methodology includes a systematic review approach to analyze existing research, aiming to synthesize data and address specific research questions. The report discusses the strengths and weaknesses of qualitative data collection methods, including online and telephone interviews, while acknowledging potential limitations such as time constraints and the possibility of data interpretation variations. The research also explores the impact of the pandemic on healthcare access and the use of virtual medical support systems.

Research method

Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Background................................................................................................................................3
Objective and research strategy.................................................................................................5
Systematic Review Methodology and Method of review..........................................................6
Search Strategy...........................................................................................................................7
Study selection criteria and procedures......................................................................................8
Data Extraction...........................................................................................................................8
Data Synthesis............................................................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................11

Title: “Impacts of Covid-19 on older people’s psychological health: Protocol for a
qualitative systematic review”.
Introduction
The main aim of the research is related to make an effective demonstration on critical
appraisal and use of research methodology that is carried out with proposed and systematic
way. After the outbreak of covid-19, people are suffering from psychological health and to
recover from that issue this research is conducted. There is different level for strength and
weakness are measure for carry out the qualitative data which must be discussed along with
the title and aim of the research. The topic have make a main focus on impact of covid-19
and make on order’s people mental health. This research makes the main focus on the impact
of older people and their mental state after being isolated for longer period (Alejandre and
et.al., 2021). With exploring some negative impact on the well-being and make a chosen area
that will identify the cause and effect of metal health issues that cause due to the impact of
covid-19 and its deep evaluation will be conducted to compare before and after Covid-19
results.
Background
When it comes to the background of the research, this can be said that research must be
available through discussing and make an effective impact of the covid-19 on the elder’s
mental stability which has been related to make a study in UK. Further, the impact for
growing to work and make government to make guidelines which has been make a pattern of
analyse physical distancing. This must be related to those who have aged of 65 and over in
UK. With the help of this research paper, different published articles and a sector for growing
and analysing Hong Kong area which make an impact after the pandemic of Covid-19. There
are different concept, use of social distancing must be lead to make a feeling for loneliness
and manage different sector to work and make effective change in order to analyse different
research and subjective loneliness. All of these are related to make more satisfied situation
and work as influencing population group. These all are essential and subjective for the
loneliness and make a hard experience for the different leadership and get more effective
human being which make work as negative feeling causing to distress the level of situation
(Cabello, Izquierdo, and Leal, 2021). This must be directly and indirectly work and manage
the source for addressing and managing depression. There are different concept which must
be related to work and provide loneliness which experiences the positive and negative factors.

On the contrary, there are different ways and make primary research in UK, which
describe the challenge and perspective of loneliness, mental illness and medical care schedule
all make an indirect impact on the onset of cocid-19 and its harsh situation. Different form of
data was collected and make a different form and onset of covid-19 pandemic which must be
related to analyse effective schedule and increase in medical healthcare facilities. The data
was major collected from 600 Patient to work and make evidence which make significant
sources in order to provide loneliness. With the major change and collected data is extracted
after the impact of covid-19 and compare the data from before. All is related to work and
manage the medical appointment and make a systematic change over the health care facilities
and make a virtual system to make individual growth in medical support (Carr, 2021). With
the help of medical facilities there are various sources are missed their health care system to
increased form 16.5% to 22.0% in 2020. Further, the change in the individual system, missed
appointment means create a free backlog and make longer causing effects on the elder’s
mental health. Same as in UK, those individual, make attend for getting appointment and run
and take risk for being potentially removed and make a GP list culture.
With the help of major survey on the pre-existing study will be effective and make elder
comparison for their own growth and their mental ability. Some of the major changes and
growth are helpful and effective for the growing nature and the impact of pandemic are
essential to work and make more effective hang out changes within the individual impact. As
per the result of t-test impact, Loneliness will be measured and make a scale for
understanding the standard for growing and working eventual growth to the anxiety and
standards. All of these are related to work and make depression and insomnia that must be
decline their mental and thinking ability within the market place. All of these are related to
provide information ad make extracted computerised medical record to work and make an
effective system. The major outcome of these studies are related to provide some major linear
regression and its generalised impact on the equation and challenges estimated period.
This can be related to work and make a report on the Covid-19 and spread over the
world, which make a realistic and suffered number of setbacks. This may be related to
disrupted daily routine of the individuals, lack of care to the elder people, isolation may get
the negative impact on the company which work and provide relevant to support (Cavicchioli
and et.al., 2021). There must be related a concern for different facilities and raised nature of
limited concern to grow with friends. Further, the change in deteriorating mental health for
providing relevant conditions. The major impact for the growth of elder people both places at

home and residential care support. This is related to work and make no contact with the
friends, family or any other people. Some major changes and growth are related to work and
make a multi studies to work and make evidence to make more resilient nature for anxiety,
depression and make a mental disorder to make an effective change for growing and
concerning people effect. All of these are related to work and make an anxiety, depression
and high stress which are related to compare to provide younger population to the phase of
covid-19. This must be related to analyse and make a strategic change over the cognitive
study. With analyse of personal traits, physical health and make different factors which can
be related to make social status for make financial ability to work and make effective stability
in the management of the growth. There are different concern which make a systematic way
for providing relevant change in evidence and make more resilient feature to work and make
anxiety and depression.
With the study to make a research and analyse the show of ability to measure work on
mental health for getting more analyse problem to work and make self-isolated changes for
work and make quarantine for the relation to the guidelines of the government to make more
effective strategies and get easily overcome from the deadly diseases. There are different
stress label which are identifying with the qualitative study and analyse the change in various
risk factors. All of these are related to work and make approaches to work and lead for the
growth of psychosocial impact on the majorette and get success (Chambergo‐Michilot and
et.al., 2021). This may be related to provide, disorder depression and make an effective
chronic diseases. As per the study, this can be analyse easily which are related to provide an
effect of 22% on men and 28% on women whom aged are above 65 years old. This research
provide make a limited study as because of pandemic and analyse pandemic to work and year
which are related to make effective time carried through the restriction.
Objective and research strategy
In order to complete the research objectives, I use PICO method which is related to:
P Population of the study group
I Intervention of the research
C Comparison in between research
O Outcome and result of the interest

This method is propounded by Fineout-Overholt, I use a systaltic change over the
topic and make a conducting platform for make a literature search. With the help of PICO
method and make assisted to find and make a formulating for getting effective research
question. There are different concept which I am going to use in research population.
Population- The population of the research is related to those older people of UK, who face
the major impact of covid-19.
Intervention- The major intervention of the research will be the previous history of mental
health and make an impact of before covid-19.
Comparison- This can be related to the different age group people that effected through the
impact of covid-19.
Outcome- To provide a relevant change and make a coping mechanism is essential and
helpful and provide an effect to search concept to make coping mechanism.
With the help of above objective, some major changes and growth to work and make
essential services for addressing and make major changes to work in left unanswered
concepts. All of these are related to provide some major changes and make an impact on the
pandemic for specific populations. All is related to provide explanatory research and make
effective approaches for addressing and eventual concept to research conceptual to provide
relevant growth in different trend and make primary research for analysing method for
interviewing participants (Cielo, Ulberg and Di Giacomo, 2021). With the proper analyses of
the strength and study to work in first study to explore the study of covid-19 and provide a
positive outcome for the growth of the UK population and health stability.
The weakness of the study is getting not an enough time for spending major evidence
and work on the two variables in one time. As the use of qualitative study take more time for
collecting and analysing major wave for pandemic and provide a long term impact on the
growth of health. Another factor which make a negative impact on the study is conducting
interview which were conducted using online portal, telephone for the different method and
make major steps for analysing (Vervaecke and Meisner, 2021). This can be manipulated to
make effective address and provide a research to work and make similar research study for
conducting pandemic able to avoid any duplication for managing interpretation for data can
vary.

Systematic Review Methodology and Method of review
This is a systematic review is a review for getting and make existing research for work
and make more systematic method to work and address the specific objective to analyse the
quality and being able to manage synthesis for collecting research data. With the major
changes and growth to work and make more specific questions (Khan, 2021). The major
changes to make systematic growth to work and make some changes to primary and
secondary research in response for getting specified research. This is the research which must
be related to work and make some major changes for inductive and make deductive for
different method suggest to analyse. This can be related to work and make some major
changes to provide belief to make philosophies known for paradigm to work and make
research process in an effective organised way (Usher and et.al., 2021).
Some major changes are related to work and make some effective growth and provide
related to make a research and work as per the systematic growth to analyse the relevant
changes for getting effective and subjective way. The main aim of the research is to provide
relevant answer and make effective impact over the growth and make deeper change in
understanding level of alignment.
With the help of qualitative data some major changes are related to make explore the
subjectivity and make an effective growth to work. The study to work on older people and
make impacted on the major extent. This will be related to work and make lived experience
for getting more effective change and able to work and make knowledge to work in different
questions to analyse and interpretive the accurate and valid growth. Further, some major
changes the method to valid and can be make easily for authenticated to analyse for growth
used for scale in make questionnaire and questions to measure by making changes to
interview through (Khatatbeh and et.al., 2021). This could be make pandemic to work
resilience to explored evidence for make isolating rile in different places to loneliness key
factor to work resulting in having a negative effect on the mental health on addressing major
impacted to growth. The method to work and make some major changes to analyse make
effective limitation to work and approaches for getting negative impact on the mental health.
Search Strategy
To analyse the effective work and make research strategy, I used to make effective
content to make criteria. The focus on the major keyword of research area and to work and
make growth to analyse to work on, “What impact has covid-19 had on the older people’s

mental health?” Other search term is able to make effective changes to analyse with different
concept and makes change to analyse different mental health to work and make covid-19. To
narrow finding to work and make timespan to used and make criteria as virtual information
came to make pandemic impact to work in year prior (Liu and et.al., 2021). All is related to
work and make changes me enough me to find studies to work for opinion based and
outcome the word. This impact for growing and analysing for discussing on the work impact
was work for the growth. It could be related to work and make studies for easily ready and
understood to ensuring and studies looked to make countries were written in major English.
All of these are related to work make a systematic management to work and make more
significant approach of CASP tool to work and make systematic management and work to
provide a relevant approach for addressing effective growth.
Study selection criteria and procedures
The major tool which will be used to make and design the process is related to
CASP Tool, as this will be related to make epidemiological principle and make behind
the type of study and make particular change in the attentive period for gaining more
effective knowledge and assess the study to work and make effective external and
internal factors that must be related to provide suitable change and appraising reviews.
With the help of CASP Tool some major changes and design are related to work and
make effective analysed for unbiased interviews and try to participate who are above 65
years old. With the help of selection criteria and effective use of CASP tool, the
interviewer is related to work and make participants and provide strategic change in
order to analyse different concept and growth to work in primary research concepts. All
of these are essential and helpful for checking and providing major changes for growing
and analysing effective part of survey for make a more systematic approaches. With the
help of study selection and effective criteria process the major changes and growth are
essential for addressing and major changes for analysing productive approaches for
intervention for future isolation and take place for analysing major pandemic impact and
the mental health of the people (Pizarro-Ruiz and Ordóñez-Camblor, 2021). With the
help of above study, the major change and growth are needed to be analyse and evaluate
the role for addressing and accumulated the change within specified time. This could be
helpful for addressing and managing effective change in order to work and provide
relevant growth to make effective growth.

Data Extraction
This is the segment which are helpful for getting and make more effective interview
in the record and further, it will be essential and make inspected different changes to work
and effective independence for analysing and achieving sources (Shrestha and et.al., 2021).
All of these are related to make involvement and make disclosing different potential and
make implication to letting effective information and make more strategic changes in
different essential aspect for growing demand.
With the help of qualitative change and make researcher to work and make different
aspect to work on the major changes to explored elderly and work on covid-19. With the help
of proper finding and analyses of the research, this can be relating to future work and make
literature review that may have some previous changes and work as per the different changes
in the major impact and this discussion on people and their mental abilities (Saragih and
et.al., 2021.). With the help of major changes and their existing growth for getting more
effective mental health, some major changes and their ability are useful for addressing and
managing worse impact to execute the cause of loneliness and distracting the major factors in
special and economical way. The existing hypothesis make the only negative impact on the
research, but after completion of the research, the major adoptability and growth are essential
to work and make some major changes to gather the perception and make effective
association of covid-19 and provide a related mental health and their ability.
Data Synthesis
This is the method which will be useful for researcher to make Meta synthesis and
provide an effective change within the specified time period. With the help of major
interprets and growth of data analysis must be essential and helpful for considering major
changes and make effectual approaches to work and make major identifying differences over
the impact of Covid-19. This method will be helpful and effective for managing and growing
a deeper understanding and provide relevant changes for growth and make effective method
to address the cognates over the period of time (Seo and et.al., 2021). These will be helpful
for analysing and make deep insight for work and make effective understanding change for
growth to work and make integrated result. This will be related to make qualitative studies to
work and make interpreted and make an effective result for growing and managing the
various related method. This method is used and make major changes in the period of data
analysis which can be evaluated through a table:

Defining research questions Make a survey for quick literature and
aware with the topics which must be
acknowledge by teacher.
Selection of studies Make a systematic research and make
effective growth.
Quality measurement Make the use of critical appraisal tool
Presenting data Detail use of the study
Data analysing method Prescribed and valuable method
Express the synthesis Validation from major reviewers to make a
detail analysis.

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