Introduction:

COVID-19 pandemic demands the population to become familiar with its characteristics in order to identify and prevent it, mainly elder people because they are the most vulnerable.

Objective:

to impart an educational strategy on COVID-19 to elder people from the elders home Esperanza de Tínima, belonging to the Teaching Community Policlinic Joaquín de Agüero y Agüero, municipality of Camaguey.

Materials and methods:

an educational intervention was acrriedout during the period from July to September 2020. The universe was formed by 23 elder people from the elders home Esperanza de Tínima who gave their informant consent to participate in the research. They applied a questionnaire before and after educational strategy. Data were processed using the statistical package SPSS 21.0 and summarized through absolute and relative frequency.

Results:

before implementing the educational strategy, it was detected that elder people showed lack of knowledge of the disease causal agent (60.9 %), its clinical manifestations (56.4 %); of the most frequent chronic diseases (69.6 %), of the transmission ways (65.3 %) and of the prevention measures (56.4 %).

Conclusions:

the designed and implemented educational strategy contributed to increase the information level elder people have on COVID-19.

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