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8 - Transforming Culturally Relevant Research Amid a COVID-19 Pandemic
- Edited by Helen Kara, Su-Ming Khoo, National University of Ireland, Galway
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- Researching in the Age of COVID-19
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- Bristol University Press
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- 23 March 2021
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- 23 October 2020, pp 80-90
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Summary
COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality have disproportionately affected communities of colour across the United States. Originally dubbed the ‘great equalizer’, many individuals believed that COVID-19 affected everyone equally (Gupta, 2020). However, COVID-19 has exposed ethnic and racial differences in morbidity and mortality (Yaya et al, 2020). Early data showed that African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans were more likely to grow ill and die from COVID-19 than White Americans (Bassett et al, 2020). As data continues to emerge, it is evident that communities of colour bear a disproportionate burden of COVID-19. Thus, relevant COVID-19 data must be viewed as a foundation for conducting health disparities research.
Health disparities research identifies groups that receive inequitable access to care, treatment and resources (Chan et al, 2018). This research is necessary because it offers an in-depth understanding of the demographic framework (for example, race, ethnicity, gender, age, socioeconomic status, marital status and ability status) for addressing COVID-19 (Chan et al, 2018). Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman (2010) posited that academic researchers should encompass cultural competence and cultural sensitivity when investigating the behaviour and social environment of specific groups. See (2007) suggested that Eurocentric research may generate a misunderstanding of the issues that communities of colour face in light of COVID-19. Therefore, establishing multicultural and multidisciplinary research teams with an inherent understanding of health disparities is paramount to understanding communities of colour.
Since the onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic, academic researchers were forced to change approaches to research and building teams (Kupferschmidt, 2020). These rapid changes were driven by the infectivity of COVID-19 and the need to socially distance and isolate. Fortunately, technology, such as Cisco WebEx, enabled a newly created diverse research team to work without geographical constraints to facilitate COVID-19 research. The purpose of this chapter is to describe how a diverse research team worked together to conduct meaningful research regarding the impact of stress and coping in the age of COVID-19. Colleagues from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and the University of Wisconsin, Madison led the development of a social mediadisseminated research project.
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- By Hamid M. Abdolmaleky, Cory Adamson, Paola Allavena, Dimitrios Anastasiou, Johanna Apfel, Surinder K. Batra, Mark E. Burkard, Amancio Carnero, Michael J. Clemens, Jeanette Gowen Cook, Isabel Dominguez, Jeremy S. Edwards, Wafik S. El-Deiry, Androulla Elia, Mohammad R. Eskandari, Aurora Esquela-Kerscher, Manel Esteller, Rob M. Ewing, Douglas V. Faller, Kristopher Frese, Xijin Ge, Giovanni Germano, Daniel A. Haber, William C. Hahn, Antoine Ho, Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue, Sergii Ivakhno, Prasad V. Jallepalli, Rosanne Jones, Sharyn Katz, Arnaud Krebs, Karl Krueger, Arthur W. Lambert, Adam Lerner, Holly Lewis, Jason W. Locasale, Giselle Y. López, Shyamala Maheswaran, Alberto Mantovani, José Ignacio Martín-Subero, Simon J. Morley, Oliver Müller, Kathleen R. Nevis, Sait Ozturk, Panagiotis Papageorgis, Jignesh R. Parikh, Steven M. Powell, Kimberly L. Raiford, Andrew M. Rankin, Patricia Reischmann, Simon Rosenfeld, Marc Samsky, Anthony Scott, Shantibhusan Senapati, Yashaswi Shrestha, Anurag Singh, Rakesh K. Singh, Gromoslaw A. Smolen, Sudhir Srivastava, Simon Tavaré, Sam Thiagalingam, László Tora, David Tuveson, Asad Umar, Matthew G. Vander Heiden, Cyrus Vaziri, Zhenghe John Wang, Kevin Webster, Chen Khuan Wong, Yu Xia, Hai Yan, Jian Yu, Lihua Yu, Min Yu, Lin Zhang, Jin-Rong Zhou
- Edited by Sam Thiagalingam
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- Systems Biology of Cancer
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- 05 April 2015
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- 09 April 2015, pp ix-xiv
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- By Leonard A. Adler, Henrik Anckarsäter, L. Eugene Arnold, Philip J. Asherson, Russell Barkley, Joseph Biederman, Andrew D. Blackwell, Jessica Bramham, Thomas E. Brown, Richard Bruggeman, Jan K. Buitelaar, C. Keith Conners, Jonathan H. Dowson, Steve V. Faraone, Christopher Gibbins, Christopher Gillberg, I. Carina Gillberg, Ylva Ginsberg, Laurence L. Greenhill, Julia D. Hunter, Cornelis C. Kan, Ronald C. Kessler, Scott H. Kollins, J. J. Sandra Kooij, Johanna Krause, Jonna Kuntsi, Florence Levy, Stephen P. McDermott, Gráinne McLoughlin, Mitul A. Mehta, Asko Niemela, Eleni Paliokosta, Yannis Paloyelis, Vangelis Pappas, Patricia Quinn, Maria Råstam, Doris Ryffel, David Shaw, Seija Sirviö, Thomas Spencer, Lacramioara Spetie, Siegfried Tuinier, Fiona E. van Dijk, Anne M. D. N. van Lammeren, Wim J. C. Verbeeck, Margaret Weiss, Timothy E. Wilens, Kiriakos Xenitidis
- Edited by Jan K. Buitelaar, Cornelis C. Kan, Philip Asherson, Institute of Psychiatry, London
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- ADHD in Adults
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- 04 April 2011
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- 03 March 2011, pp vii-ix
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