Presentation

Team 4: Fatima Shafiq, Kerry McMahon, Savo Humed, Erica Oberoi, Khalat Hadi Abdulrahman, Cassie Navalta, Sarah Marotta, Natalie Ellis

OUTLINE:

• Issues specific to high-risk youth in that community as it relates to precautionary behavior.
• Data on current youth attitudes in the community
• Comparative Analysis
• Takeaways
• Strategy
• Participatory Action Research
• References

Issues specific to high-risk youth in that community as it relates to precautionary behavior.

• False sense of confidence regarding their safety
• Most who get COVID-19 recover and many are asymptomatic
• Believe mingling with others in large groups, attending parties, not wearing masks, and ignoring community pandemic guidelines will not seriously endanger them
• Many may pass the illness to others unknowingly (Maragakis, 2020)

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• Poorer communities are less equipped to deal with the health and financial consequences of COVID-19
• Leads to employment in high-risk industries and occupations (Hawkins, 2020)

Data on current youth attitudes in the community

Attitudes toward COVID-19

-Underestimate risk (58% see it as less of a risk) (ipsos.com)

-Get misinformation from social media

-Age group (18-29) least likely to participate in preventative measures (Barone, E. Times.com)

-Concern over mental health

-anxiety, depression, disruption to sleep

-spike in symptoms related to COVID related news reports

-Concern over future, especially over education

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Figure 1. COVID-19 Prevention Methods by Age by Emily Barone, 2020

Data on current youth attitudes in the community

Attitudes toward the Vaccine

-Low rate of vaccination in 12-15 year-old group (mass.gov, p8)

-Those under 18 need parent/guardian consent (Finucane, M & Huddle R)

-Less worried because parents and grandparents have already been vaccinated (Finucane, M & Huddle R )

-More susceptible to misinformation on social media (Satariano, A.)

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Data on current youth attitudes in the community

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Figure 2. Vaccination Statistics by Age. Mass.gov, p8. 2021.

Comparative Analysis

Philadelphia

• Large proportion of minorities
• 43.6% Black or African American; 15.2% Hispanic or Latino (US Census Bureau, 2019)

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[Philadelphia Research Consortium] [Photograph] The Winstar Institute. https://wistar.org/research-discoveries/philadelphia-research-consortium

Maps. (2008). United States map Philadelphia [photograph]. Maps. http://mapssite.blogspot.com/2008/10/united-states-map-philadelphia.html

Philadelphia

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• It Takes Philly: partners inner city youth with professionals
• Black Doctors Consortium: initiative for vaccines and testing; mobile and centered a local churches, going into schools (It Takes Philly, 2021)
• Philadelphia FIGHT Community Health Centers (Philadelphia FIGHT, n.d.)
• Culturally competent care, works with people living with HIV, formerly incarcerated, and young people at risk
• Have clinics at already-establish centers; walk-ins

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• Unidos Contra COVID (Lambert, 2021; Feldman & Yu, 2021)
• Culturally competent
• Church and community-based
• myths

“Individuals personally impacted by COVID, especially younger people, are especially effective. ‘Bring me the most fit person in this congregation who almost died of COVID and have him and the medical professionals stand in front of everybody, tell their story and answer their questions. That’s the formula for hyperlocal buy in.’” (Lambert, 2021)

Takeaways

• Culturally-competent care
• Bringing the vaccines to the community members
• Fact-checking myths and common concerns
• Familiar faces

Strategy

• Our main approach is social media outreach because of the targeted youth demographic
• Misinformation is everywhere online and we want to be able to combat that in an easy to understand way like infographics
• We want to provide reliable resources and information to young people who may not know what is true or false about Covid-19 and its vaccinations

Strategy Prototypes 1

Strategy Prototypes 2

Strategy Prototypes 3

Participatory Action Research

• Children and youth involved in PAR have increased knowledge about the issue
• Creates increased sense of belonging to community
• Changes in power dynamics between providers and youth served
• “Organizations developed awareness and advocacy campaigns that were informed by the perspectives of the children and youth on services provided to them” (Shamrova & Cummings, 2017, p. 406)

References

Barone, E. (2020, October 28). Young adults less likely to take COVID-19 prevention actions. Time. https://time.com/5904813/mask-wearing-age-breakdown/

Black Doctors COVID Consortium. (2021). Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium. https://blackdoctorsconsortium.com/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]. (2020, September 29). Recent increase in COVID-19 cases reported among adults aged 18–22 years — United

States, May 31–September 5, 2020. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6939e4.htm

Cunningham, J.W., Vaduganathan, M., Claggett, B.L., Jering, K.S., Bhatt, A. S., Rosenthal, N., Solomon, S. D. (2020). Clinical outcomes in young US adults hospitalized

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with COVID-19. JAMA Internal Medicine,181(3), 379–381. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.5313

Feldman, N. & Yu, A. (2021, March 16). Philly’s Latino doctors form a collective to boost lagging community vaccination rates. Whyy.

https://whyy.org/articles/phillys-latino-doctors-form-a-collective-to-boost-lagging-community-vaccination-rates/

Finucane, M. & Huddle, R. (2021, June 2). This chart shows how younger people are lagging in getting COVID vaccinations in Mass. Boston globe.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/02/nation/this-chart-shows-how-younger-people-are-lagging-getting-covid-vaccinations-mass/

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References

Hawkins, D. (2020). Social determinants of COVID-19 in Massachusetts, United States: An ecological study. Journal of Preventive Medicine & Public Health, 53(4),

220–227. https://doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.20.256

Huckins, J. F., daSilva, A. W., Wang, W., Hedlund, E., Rogers, C., Nepal, S. K., Wu, J., Obuchi, M., Murphy, E. I., Meyer, M. L., Wagner, D. D., Holtzheimer, P. E., & Campbell, A. T. (2020). Mental health and behavior of college students during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic: Longitudinal smartphone and ecological momentary assessment study. Journal of medical Internet Research, 22(6), e20185. https://doi.org/10.2196/20185

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Ipsos. (2021, July 20). Americans growing more concerned about COVID-19, yet unwilling to take additional safety precautions or change behavior.

https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/axios-ipsos-coronavirus-index

It Takes Philly. (2021). About. https://ittakesphilly.org/#about

Lambert, J. (2021, June 18). How one medical team is bringing COVID-19 vaccines to hard-to-reach Hispanic communities. Science news.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-covid-vaccine-outreach-hispanic-communities-philadelphia

Maragakis, L. L. (2020, December 2). Coronavirus and COVID-19: Younger adults are at risk, too. Johns Hopkins medicine.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/coronavirus-and-covid-19-younger-adults-are-at-risk-too

Massachusetts Department of Public Health COVID-19 Dashboard. (2021). Weekly COVID-19 Vaccination Report. Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

https://www.mass.gov/doc/weekly-covid-19-vaccination-report-july-22-2021/download

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References

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Meyer, K. (2020, April 17). Black doctors consortium takes COVID-19 testing into their own hands.

https://whyy.org/articles/black-doctors-consortium-takes-covid-19-testing-into-their-own-hands/

Philadelphia FIGHT Community Health Centers. (n.d.) Philadelphia FIGHT Community Vaccination clinics.https://fight.org/vaccination-clinics/

Satariano, A. (2020, September 23). Young people more likely to believe virus misinformation, study says. The New York times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/technology/young-people-more-likely-to-believe-virus-misinformation-study-says.html

Shamrova, D. P. & Cummings, C. E. (2017). Participatory action research (PAR) with children and youth: An integrative review of methodology and PAR outcomes

for participants, organizations, and communities. Children and Youth Services Review, 81, 400–412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.08.022

The United States Census Bureau. (2019). QuickFacts Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania (V2019) [Data set].

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/philadelphiacountypennsylvania

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