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Making Sense or Non-Sense? Communicating COVID-19 Guidelines to Young Adults at Danish Folk High Schools
Little is known about young people’s behaviors and responses under outbreaks of infectious diseases such as the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in institutional settings. This research investigated the reactions of young adults residing at Danish folk high schools (FHSs) towards COVID-19 guidelines an...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9916156/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36767917 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032557 |
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author | Vildekilde, Thilde Connelly, Julie Jakobsen van Houten, Charlotte Sophie Hansen, Jakob Thestrup Sørensen, Jane Brandt Meyrowitsch, Dan Wolf Konradsen, Flemming |
author_facet | Vildekilde, Thilde Connelly, Julie Jakobsen van Houten, Charlotte Sophie Hansen, Jakob Thestrup Sørensen, Jane Brandt Meyrowitsch, Dan Wolf Konradsen, Flemming |
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description | Little is known about young people’s behaviors and responses under outbreaks of infectious diseases such as the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in institutional settings. This research investigated the reactions of young adults residing at Danish folk high schools (FHSs) towards COVID-19 guidelines and the communicative styles used to enforce COVID-19 guidelines. The qualitative data consists of focus group discussions (FGDs) with students, interviews with staff, and participant observations, as well as survey data from 1800 students. This study showed that young adults reacted negatively when first faced with the new reality of COVID-19 restrictions. They expressed distress over the loss of meaning (non-sense), loss of sense of community, as well as uncertainty. Hygiene guidelines, however, made immediate sense and were socially well accepted. Most FHSs actively involved students in risk communication and creative examples of community-building communication were identified. This study demonstrates that successful risk communication at educational institutions must take into consideration how young adults make sense of and cope with the uncertainties of life during crisis situations including epidemics. |
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spelling | pubmed-99161562023-02-11 Making Sense or Non-Sense? Communicating COVID-19 Guidelines to Young Adults at Danish Folk High Schools Vildekilde, Thilde Connelly, Julie Jakobsen van Houten, Charlotte Sophie Hansen, Jakob Thestrup Sørensen, Jane Brandt Meyrowitsch, Dan Wolf Konradsen, Flemming Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Little is known about young people’s behaviors and responses under outbreaks of infectious diseases such as the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in institutional settings. This research investigated the reactions of young adults residing at Danish folk high schools (FHSs) towards COVID-19 guidelines and the communicative styles used to enforce COVID-19 guidelines. The qualitative data consists of focus group discussions (FGDs) with students, interviews with staff, and participant observations, as well as survey data from 1800 students. This study showed that young adults reacted negatively when first faced with the new reality of COVID-19 restrictions. They expressed distress over the loss of meaning (non-sense), loss of sense of community, as well as uncertainty. Hygiene guidelines, however, made immediate sense and were socially well accepted. Most FHSs actively involved students in risk communication and creative examples of community-building communication were identified. This study demonstrates that successful risk communication at educational institutions must take into consideration how young adults make sense of and cope with the uncertainties of life during crisis situations including epidemics. MDPI 2023-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9916156/ /pubmed/36767917 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032557 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Vildekilde, Thilde Connelly, Julie Jakobsen van Houten, Charlotte Sophie Hansen, Jakob Thestrup Sørensen, Jane Brandt Meyrowitsch, Dan Wolf Konradsen, Flemming Making Sense or Non-Sense? Communicating COVID-19 Guidelines to Young Adults at Danish Folk High Schools |
title | Making Sense or Non-Sense? Communicating COVID-19 Guidelines to Young Adults at Danish Folk High Schools |
title_full | Making Sense or Non-Sense? Communicating COVID-19 Guidelines to Young Adults at Danish Folk High Schools |
title_fullStr | Making Sense or Non-Sense? Communicating COVID-19 Guidelines to Young Adults at Danish Folk High Schools |
title_full_unstemmed | Making Sense or Non-Sense? Communicating COVID-19 Guidelines to Young Adults at Danish Folk High Schools |
title_short | Making Sense or Non-Sense? Communicating COVID-19 Guidelines to Young Adults at Danish Folk High Schools |
title_sort | making sense or non-sense? communicating covid-19 guidelines to young adults at danish folk high schools |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9916156/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36767917 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032557 |
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