Participant 327-331 Community Conversations Focus Group
Date
2021-02-01
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Publisher
Trenton, N.J.: New Jersey State Library
Abstract
Description
In this focus group, participants discuss challenges with job loss, university closures and the transition to remote learning, working from home, and how these challenges affected their mental health. They also share about the health disparities they see in their own communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants share strategies they have used to be supportive to the people around them, and discuss some positive outcomes of the pandemic.
Keywords
Acts of Kindness, COVID-19 Health Behaviors, Positive Outlook, Social and Economic Factors, Resilience, Self-Care Strategies, Social Re-Connect, Negative Mental Health Outcomes, Low Income Individuals, Those Left out of Virus Response, Education, Social Disconnect - Social Isolation and Loneliness, Mental Health, Challenges with Remote Schooling_Virtual Learning for Children, Unpredictability, Housing, Noteworthy Quotes for Report or Presentation, Secondary Suffering and Trauma, View of the Federal Government's Response (in 2020), Employment, Middlesex Co. (N.J.), Somerset Co. (N.J.), New Jersey, COVID-19 Pandemic