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Percepção do idoso em relação à Internet
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Verona, Silvana Marinaro Cunha, Cristiane Costa Da Pimenta, Gustavo Camps Buriti, Marcelo De Almeida |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | With the growth of life expectation rate in Brazil, old-aged people became more active in society, making new projects and being more up-to-date in all technology changes. The Internet also call the attention of old-aged people who want to be more up-to-date and have great interest in learning how to use it. The research has the purpose of describing old-aged people’s opinion about Internet. In this research there was the participation of 32 volunteers, between 68,8 +/6,9 years old, being 65,6% female and 34,4% male, who usually go to Cultural Public Institutions in São Paulo. All data were collected through a questionnaire, containing classified and nonclassified questions. Results showed that 40% of old-aged people consider that Internet helps communication, 25% find it improves knowledge and 10% point out the facilities (χ2o= 1,38, χ2c= 3,84); about difficulties, 53,1% of them don’t have difficulties, 15,6% have some difficulty in using computers and 9,4% reported that health issues that are responsible for obstructing the use of this machine (χ2o= 6,54 , χ2c=3,84). In conclusion, old-aged people consider Internet a positive tool and this research revealed that, although they have resistance to use computers, there is a real interest in learning how to use this kind of technology. |
| Starting Page | 189 |
| Ending Page | 197 |
| Page Count | 9 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 14 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://pepsic.bvsalud.org/pdf/tp/v14n2/v14n2a07.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
