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Exploring Trauma and Resilience among NYS COVID-19 Pandemic Survivors. Behav Sci (Basel) 2022; 12:bs12080249. [PMID: 35892349 PMCID: PMC9394328 DOI: 10.3390/bs12080249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2022] [Revised: 06/27/2022] [Accepted: 07/19/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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The New York State (NYS) Office of Mental Health created the NYS COVID-19 Emotional Support Helpline and enlisted graduate students to provide phone-based emotional support initially to the NYS community. This NYS-funded initiative transformed into providing psychosocial support for callers across the United States. Four NYS doctoral students acted as the helpline agents and received 251 individual calls from May–August 2020. The agents documented the calls with clinical notes which cannot be traced back to specific callers. The purpose of this retrospective qualitative study was to explore the themes that emerged from the calls to give voice to the trauma that callers were reporting during the early phases of the pandemic, and the resilience they demonstrated as they engaged with the Helpline. The agents’ clinical transcripts were converted into codes using a critical-constructivist grounded theory approach (Levitt, 2021) with the NVIVO qualitative data analysis software. A second research team audited the initial codes for construct clarity. Emergent themes detailed the unique traumas that helpline callers divulged, how the agents provided support, and the callers’ capacities for resilience. Recommendations are suggested to inform clinicians working with pandemic survivors, to offer guidance on providing distance or virtual interventions as well as to enhance policymakers’ understanding of addressing mental health needs across populations served via the NYS COVID-19 Emotional Support Helpline.
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Arranz I, Nobre R, Cucherousset J, Reis de Carvalho A, Cantarute‐Rodrigues A, Favriou P, Garcia F, Gimenez M, Imbert A, Marin V, Paz‐Vinas I. Promoting lab culture to enhance academic resilience during crises. Ecol Evol 2022; 12:e8986. [PMID: 35784032 PMCID: PMC9203588 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2021] [Revised: 04/25/2022] [Accepted: 05/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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The COVID‐19 pandemic has heavily impacted academics’ professional and personal lives, forcing many research groups (labs) to shift from an academic system primarily based on in‐person work to an almost full‐time remote workforce during lockdowns. Labs are generally characterized by a strong lab culture that underpins all research and social activities of its members. Lab culture traditionally builds on the pillars of in‐person communication, knowledge sharing, and all social and professional activities that promote collaboration, team building, scientific productivity, and well‐being. Here, we use the experience of our research group facing the COVID‐19 pandemic to illustrate how proactively reinforcing lab culture and its positive outcomes have been essential to our lab when transitioning from an in‐person to a remote lab environment, and through its ongoing evolution toward a hybrid remote/in‐person model. We argue that the proactive promotion of lab culture in research groups can foster academic resilience during crises, helping research groups to maintain their capacity to conduct scientific activities while preserving a sustainable life/work balance and a healthy mental condition.
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- Ignasi Arranz
- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB)UMR5174Université Toulouse 3 Paul SabatierCNRSIRDToulouseFrance
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB)UMR5174Université Toulouse 3 Paul SabatierCNRSIRDToulouseFrance
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB)UMR5174Université Toulouse 3 Paul SabatierCNRSIRDToulouseFrance
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB)UMR5174Université Toulouse 3 Paul SabatierCNRSIRDToulouseFrance
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB)UMR5174Université Toulouse 3 Paul SabatierCNRSIRDToulouseFrance
- Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Ecologia de Ambientes Aquáticos ContinentaisUniversidade Estadual de MaringáMaringáBrazil
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB)UMR5174Université Toulouse 3 Paul SabatierCNRSIRDToulouseFrance
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB)UMR5174Université Toulouse 3 Paul SabatierCNRSIRDToulouseFrance
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB)UMR5174Université Toulouse 3 Paul SabatierCNRSIRDToulouseFrance
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB)UMR5174Université Toulouse 3 Paul SabatierCNRSIRDToulouseFrance
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB)UMR5174Université Toulouse 3 Paul SabatierCNRSIRDToulouseFrance
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB)UMR5174Université Toulouse 3 Paul SabatierCNRSIRDToulouseFrance
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Morales-Rodríguez FM, Martínez-Ramón JP, Méndez I, Ruiz-Esteban C. Stress, Coping, and Resilience Before and After COVID-19: A Predictive Model Based on Artificial Intelligence in the University Environment. Front Psychol 2021; 12:647964. [PMID: 34017287 PMCID: PMC8129547 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.647964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2020] [Accepted: 04/12/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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The COVID-19 global health emergency has greatly impacted the educational field. Faced with unprecedented stress situations, professors, students, and families have employed various coping and resilience strategies throughout the confinement period. High and persistent stress levels are associated with other pathologies; hence, their detection and prevention are needed. Consequently, this study aimed to design a predictive model of stress in the educational field based on artificial intelligence that included certain sociodemographic variables, coping strategies, and resilience capacity, and to study the relationship between them. The non-probabilistic snowball sampling method was used, involving 337 people (73% women) from the university education community in south-eastern Spain. The Perceived Stress Scale, Stress Management Questionnaire, and Brief Resilience Scale were administered. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (version 24) was used to design the architecture of artificial neural networks. The results found that stress levels could be predicted by the synaptic weights of coping strategies and timing of the epidemic (before and after the implementation of isolation measures), with a predictive capacity of over 80% found in the neural network model. Additionally, direct and significant associations were identified between the use of certain coping strategies, stress levels, and resilience. The conclusions of this research are essential for effective stress detection, and therefore, early intervention in the field of educational psychology, by discussing the influence of resilience or lack thereof on the prediction of stress levels. Identifying the variables that maintain a greater predictive power in stress levels is an effective strategy to design more adjusted prevention programs and to anticipate the needs of the community.
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- Department of Evolutionary Psychology and Education, Faculty of Psychology, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Psychology and Education, Faculty of Psychology, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Psychology and Education, Faculty of Psychology, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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Gates TG, Ross D, Bennett B, Jonathan K. Teaching Mental Health and Well-Being Online in a Crisis: Fostering Love and Self-compassion in Clinical Social Work Education. CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK JOURNAL 2021; 50:22-34. [PMID: 33526952 PMCID: PMC7840390 DOI: 10.1007/s10615-021-00786-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/04/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has shifted clinical social work (CSW) and mental health education in Australia, and indeed throughout much of the globe, onto online delivery. The disruption caused by COVID-19 presents unexpected challenges in fostering the development of skill sets among social work educators in partnership with students. This article is a reflexive collaborative autoethnography written by four educators of different international and cultural backgrounds at a regional university in Queensland. Our university has experienced a shift from primarily a face-to-face delivery to online delivery due to social distancing. This article is grounded in an ethic of love, a values-based relationship-oriented practice promoting care, collaborative dialogue and solidarity between people, using self-compassion and reflexivity. We explore how COVID-19 has forced the authors to alter their teaching practice, cope with uncertainties, and respond with loving kindness to the shifting needs of students. We draw upon our experiences as educators of diverse cultural, linguistic, gender, and sexualities from Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Nigeria and reflect upon how we have simultaneously turned inward and outward through technology. We draw upon person-centered, narrative, trauma informed and anti-oppressive clinical and educational approaches when exploring self-compassion and loving approaches with the students. We discuss the need for self-compassion and love of others as we respond to the current crisis by modeling self-compassion and love for CSW students who are experiencing crises, including loss of employment, separation from family overseas and interstate, isolation from colleagues and loved ones, and healthcare issues.
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- Trevor G. Gates
- School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast, 90 Sippy Downs Dr, Sippy Downs, QLD 4556 Australia
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- School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast, 90 Sippy Downs Dr, Sippy Downs, QLD 4556 Australia
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- School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast, 90 Sippy Downs Dr, Sippy Downs, QLD 4556 Australia
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- School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast, 90 Sippy Downs Dr, Sippy Downs, QLD 4556 Australia
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Nooner KB, Chung T, Feldstein Ewing SW, Brumback T, Arwood Z, Tapert SF, Brown SA, Cottler L. Retaining Adolescent and Young Adult Participants in Research During a Pandemic: Best Practices From Two Large-Scale Developmental Neuroimaging Studies (NCANDA and ABCD). Front Behav Neurosci 2021; 14:597902. [PMID: 33536880 PMCID: PMC7848221 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2020.597902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2020] [Accepted: 12/21/2020] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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The novel coronavirus pandemic that emerged in late 2019 (COVID-19) has created challenges not previously experienced in human research. This paper discusses two large-scale NIH-funded multi-site longitudinal studies of adolescents and young adults - the National Consortium on Alcohol and Neurodevelopment in Adolescence (NCANDA) and the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study - and valuable approaches to learn about adaptive processes for conducting developmentally sensitive research with neuroimaging and neurocognitive testing across consortia during a global pandemic. We focus on challenges experienced during the pandemic and modifications that may guide other projects, such as implementing adapted protocols that protect the safety of participants and research staff, and addressing assessment challenges through the use of strategies such as remote and mobile assessments. Given the pandemic's disproportionate impacts on participants typically underrepresented in research, we describe efforts to retain these individuals. The pandemic provides an opportunity to develop adaptive processes that can facilitate future studies' ability to mobilize effectively and rapidly.
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- Kate B. Nooner
- Department of Psychology, The University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY, United States
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- Department of Psychology, The University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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Mohamed S, Ismail Z, Shuib N, Ali NF. Peri-Traumatic Distress and Its Relationship to Resilience and Coping Among Medical Students in Malaysia During COVID-19 Lockdown. Front Psychiatry 2021; 12:789554. [PMID: 34938215 PMCID: PMC8685317 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.789554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2021] [Accepted: 11/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background: Medical students are not spared from the challenges related to the Covid-19 lockdown. The fear and uncertainties may lead to traumatic symptoms and test their resilience and sense of coping. Thus, this study aims to determine the prevalence of peri-traumatic distress symptoms and its association with the level of resilience and the coping strategies used during the lockdown among medical students. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional online questionnaire survey involving medical students from a public university in Malaysia. It was conducted during the COVID-19 lockdown or Movement Control Order (MCO) where the students were asked to fill in the COVID-19 Peri-traumatic Distress Index (CPDI), Brief COPE Inventory, and Connor Davidson Resilience Scale (CDRS-25). Results: A total of 282 clinical and 172 pre-clinical medical students were involved. Peri-traumatic distress symptoms were reported by 27% out of the total students. This study found that those who were having peritraumatic distress symptoms were from the pre-clinical years, had poor internet access, as well as lower resilience levels, and used more dysfunctional coping strategies. Pre-clinical medical students with difficult internet access were eight times more likely to have peritraumatic distress symptoms. Conclusions: Given the high level of peri-traumatic distress symptoms reported by medical students during the lockdown, it is vital to identify the vulnerable students, assess their needs and risks to mental health problems during this challenging time as the pandemic is still ongoing with countries going in and out of lockdown depending on the cases at the time. The university administration for each University in Malaysia will need to have a clear academic guideline and policy as well as providing improved infrastructure to minimize the distress faced by medical students.
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- Salina Mohamed
- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh, Malaysia
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- Department of Public Health Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh, Malaysia
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh, Malaysia
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