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Understanding the Early Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Brain Injury Associations Across Canada: A Qualitative Study
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased challenges for people living with brain injury and community associations to support this vulnerable population. This study aimed to gain an in-depth understanding of the challenges faced by brain injury survivors during the first year of the pandemic and how comm...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10655638/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37970821 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00469580231209161 |
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author | Salazar, Ana Paula Lecours, Sophie Engel, Lisa Gignac, Monique A. M. Rotenberg, Shlomit Zarshenas, Sareh McDonald, Michelle Bottari, Carolina |
author_facet | Salazar, Ana Paula Lecours, Sophie Engel, Lisa Gignac, Monique A. M. Rotenberg, Shlomit Zarshenas, Sareh McDonald, Michelle Bottari, Carolina |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic has increased challenges for people living with brain injury and community associations to support this vulnerable population. This study aimed to gain an in-depth understanding of the challenges faced by brain injury survivors during the first year of the pandemic and how community brain injury associations adapted their services to respond to these needs. Findings from seven focus-group with 31 representatives of Canadian brain injury associations revealed 4 main themes: (1) Addressing evolving client needs; (2) Keeping clients safe; (3) Challenges and opportunities navigating the digital world; and (4) Sustaining brain injury associations in the face of uncertainties and disruptions. To comply with public health measures, associations reported pivoting their service delivery online, despite recognizing the difficulties this could create for many brain injury survivors in accessing and using technology. Our findings also highlight concrete directions for not-profit organizations providing instrumental help with activities, acting as a liaison and interpreter of public health guidelines, and in connecting with clients using technology while handling potential cognitive and technological challenges. Addressing these issues has the potential to protect people living with brain injury and community associations from external threats, like pandemics, in the future. |
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spelling | pubmed-106556382023-11-16 Understanding the Early Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Brain Injury Associations Across Canada: A Qualitative Study Salazar, Ana Paula Lecours, Sophie Engel, Lisa Gignac, Monique A. M. Rotenberg, Shlomit Zarshenas, Sareh McDonald, Michelle Bottari, Carolina Inquiry Original Research The COVID-19 pandemic has increased challenges for people living with brain injury and community associations to support this vulnerable population. This study aimed to gain an in-depth understanding of the challenges faced by brain injury survivors during the first year of the pandemic and how community brain injury associations adapted their services to respond to these needs. Findings from seven focus-group with 31 representatives of Canadian brain injury associations revealed 4 main themes: (1) Addressing evolving client needs; (2) Keeping clients safe; (3) Challenges and opportunities navigating the digital world; and (4) Sustaining brain injury associations in the face of uncertainties and disruptions. To comply with public health measures, associations reported pivoting their service delivery online, despite recognizing the difficulties this could create for many brain injury survivors in accessing and using technology. Our findings also highlight concrete directions for not-profit organizations providing instrumental help with activities, acting as a liaison and interpreter of public health guidelines, and in connecting with clients using technology while handling potential cognitive and technological challenges. Addressing these issues has the potential to protect people living with brain injury and community associations from external threats, like pandemics, in the future. SAGE Publications 2023-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10655638/ /pubmed/37970821 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00469580231209161 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Salazar, Ana Paula Lecours, Sophie Engel, Lisa Gignac, Monique A. M. Rotenberg, Shlomit Zarshenas, Sareh McDonald, Michelle Bottari, Carolina Understanding the Early Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Brain Injury Associations Across Canada: A Qualitative Study |
title | Understanding the Early Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Brain Injury Associations Across Canada: A Qualitative Study |
title_full | Understanding the Early Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Brain Injury Associations Across Canada: A Qualitative Study |
title_fullStr | Understanding the Early Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Brain Injury Associations Across Canada: A Qualitative Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Understanding the Early Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Brain Injury Associations Across Canada: A Qualitative Study |
title_short | Understanding the Early Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Brain Injury Associations Across Canada: A Qualitative Study |
title_sort | understanding the early impacts of the covid-19 pandemic on brain injury associations across canada: a qualitative study |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10655638/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37970821 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00469580231209161 |
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