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Possibilities and constraints of rapid online ethnography: Lessons from a rapid assessment of COVID-19 policy for people who use drugs

During the COVID-19 Pandemic, health care provision changed rapidly and funding became available to assess pandemic-related policy change. Research activities, however, were limited to contactless, online delivery. It was clear early on that some elements of online rapid ethnography were feasible an...

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Autores principales: Eaves, Emery R., Trotter, Robert T., Marquez, Bonnie, Negron, Kayla, Doerry, Eck, Mensah, David, Compton-Gore, Kate A., Lanzetta, Shana A., Kruithoff, Kathryn, Dykman, Kaitlyn, Baldwin, Julie A.
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9441939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36072500
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.959642
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author Eaves, Emery R.
Trotter, Robert T.
Marquez, Bonnie
Negron, Kayla
Doerry, Eck
Mensah, David
Compton-Gore, Kate A.
Lanzetta, Shana A.
Kruithoff, Kathryn
Dykman, Kaitlyn
Baldwin, Julie A.
author_facet Eaves, Emery R.
Trotter, Robert T.
Marquez, Bonnie
Negron, Kayla
Doerry, Eck
Mensah, David
Compton-Gore, Kate A.
Lanzetta, Shana A.
Kruithoff, Kathryn
Dykman, Kaitlyn
Baldwin, Julie A.
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description During the COVID-19 Pandemic, health care provision changed rapidly and funding became available to assess pandemic-related policy change. Research activities, however, were limited to contactless, online delivery. It was clear early on that some elements of online rapid ethnography were feasible and effective, while others would not approach traditional ethnographic depth. We conducted an online Rapid Assessment, Response, and Evaluation (RARE) project from August 2020 to September 2021 to understand how COVID-19 policy impacted people who use drugs. Our interdisciplinary research team conducted online ethnographic interviews and focus groups with 45 providers and community stakeholders, and 19 clients from rural and urban areas throughout Arizona. In addition, 26 webinars, online trainings, and virtual conferences focused on opioid policy and medication for opioid use disorders (MOUD) were opportunities to observe conversations among providers and program representatives about how best to implement policy changes, how to reach people in recovery, and what aspects of the changes should carry forward into better all-around opioid services in the future. Our RARE project was successful in collecting a range of providers' perspectives on both rural and urban implementation of take-home MOUDs as well as a wide view of national conversations, but client perspectives were limited to those who were not impacted by the policies and continued to attend in-person daily clinic visits. We describe challenges to online rapid ethnography and how online research may have allowed for an in-depth, but incomplete picture of how policy changes during COVID-19 policy affected people with opioid use disorders.
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spelling pubmed-94419392022-09-06 Possibilities and constraints of rapid online ethnography: Lessons from a rapid assessment of COVID-19 policy for people who use drugs Eaves, Emery R. Trotter, Robert T. Marquez, Bonnie Negron, Kayla Doerry, Eck Mensah, David Compton-Gore, Kate A. Lanzetta, Shana A. Kruithoff, Kathryn Dykman, Kaitlyn Baldwin, Julie A. Front Sociol Sociology During the COVID-19 Pandemic, health care provision changed rapidly and funding became available to assess pandemic-related policy change. Research activities, however, were limited to contactless, online delivery. It was clear early on that some elements of online rapid ethnography were feasible and effective, while others would not approach traditional ethnographic depth. We conducted an online Rapid Assessment, Response, and Evaluation (RARE) project from August 2020 to September 2021 to understand how COVID-19 policy impacted people who use drugs. Our interdisciplinary research team conducted online ethnographic interviews and focus groups with 45 providers and community stakeholders, and 19 clients from rural and urban areas throughout Arizona. In addition, 26 webinars, online trainings, and virtual conferences focused on opioid policy and medication for opioid use disorders (MOUD) were opportunities to observe conversations among providers and program representatives about how best to implement policy changes, how to reach people in recovery, and what aspects of the changes should carry forward into better all-around opioid services in the future. Our RARE project was successful in collecting a range of providers' perspectives on both rural and urban implementation of take-home MOUDs as well as a wide view of national conversations, but client perspectives were limited to those who were not impacted by the policies and continued to attend in-person daily clinic visits. We describe challenges to online rapid ethnography and how online research may have allowed for an in-depth, but incomplete picture of how policy changes during COVID-19 policy affected people with opioid use disorders. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9441939/ /pubmed/36072500 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.959642 Text en Copyright © 2022 Eaves, Trotter, Marquez, Negron, Doerry, Mensah, Compton-Gore, Lanzetta, Kruithoff, Dykman and Baldwin. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Sociology
Eaves, Emery R.
Trotter, Robert T.
Marquez, Bonnie
Negron, Kayla
Doerry, Eck
Mensah, David
Compton-Gore, Kate A.
Lanzetta, Shana A.
Kruithoff, Kathryn
Dykman, Kaitlyn
Baldwin, Julie A.
Possibilities and constraints of rapid online ethnography: Lessons from a rapid assessment of COVID-19 policy for people who use drugs
title Possibilities and constraints of rapid online ethnography: Lessons from a rapid assessment of COVID-19 policy for people who use drugs
title_full Possibilities and constraints of rapid online ethnography: Lessons from a rapid assessment of COVID-19 policy for people who use drugs
title_fullStr Possibilities and constraints of rapid online ethnography: Lessons from a rapid assessment of COVID-19 policy for people who use drugs
title_full_unstemmed Possibilities and constraints of rapid online ethnography: Lessons from a rapid assessment of COVID-19 policy for people who use drugs
title_short Possibilities and constraints of rapid online ethnography: Lessons from a rapid assessment of COVID-19 policy for people who use drugs
title_sort possibilities and constraints of rapid online ethnography: lessons from a rapid assessment of covid-19 policy for people who use drugs
topic Sociology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9441939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36072500
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.959642
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