Social Media Approach to Understanding Community Strengths and Needs During COVID-19 Pandemic
Mentor 1
Jeana Holt
Start Date
16-4-2021 12:00 AM
Description
COVID-19 has profoundly impacted populations’ mental and physical health. People that were under-resourced before the pandemic are even more vulnerable. COVID-19-related stressors, impacts, and sequelae affect ethnic and racial minorities more than ethnic and racial majority groups. The purpose of this project was to understand individual and community strengths, challenges, and needs in two metropolitan mid-western cities during the COVID-19 pandemic using the MyStrengthsMyHealth™ (MSMH™) web-based application. The MSMH™ whole-person strength-based consumer-facing application that leverages the rigor of the Omaha System, a standardized multidisciplinary taxonomy and an ontology, to provide structure and organization to the data. The Omaha System is a comprehensive yet concise relational framework that connects problem-based concepts, interventions, and outcomes relevant in health and healthcare. We employed social media and social networking strategies to disseminate the opportunity to participate in the study. Data will be analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results will be presented at the symposium. This research contributes to existing literature demonstrating that communities are not receiving essential supplies during times of self-quarantine and social distancing. This research builds on previous work in which we adopted a whole-person health approach, focusing on individual and community resilience as well as challenges and needs. Self-reported trends in community needs provide essential and actionable data for community-members, decision-makers, and researchers.
Social Media Approach to Understanding Community Strengths and Needs During COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 has profoundly impacted populations’ mental and physical health. People that were under-resourced before the pandemic are even more vulnerable. COVID-19-related stressors, impacts, and sequelae affect ethnic and racial minorities more than ethnic and racial majority groups. The purpose of this project was to understand individual and community strengths, challenges, and needs in two metropolitan mid-western cities during the COVID-19 pandemic using the MyStrengthsMyHealth™ (MSMH™) web-based application. The MSMH™ whole-person strength-based consumer-facing application that leverages the rigor of the Omaha System, a standardized multidisciplinary taxonomy and an ontology, to provide structure and organization to the data. The Omaha System is a comprehensive yet concise relational framework that connects problem-based concepts, interventions, and outcomes relevant in health and healthcare. We employed social media and social networking strategies to disseminate the opportunity to participate in the study. Data will be analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results will be presented at the symposium. This research contributes to existing literature demonstrating that communities are not receiving essential supplies during times of self-quarantine and social distancing. This research builds on previous work in which we adopted a whole-person health approach, focusing on individual and community resilience as well as challenges and needs. Self-reported trends in community needs provide essential and actionable data for community-members, decision-makers, and researchers.
