An Italian Adaptation of the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS) and Attitudes During the Covid-19 Outbreak

Resilience has attracted the interest of the scientific community during the Covid-19 outbreak, as a protective factor in mental health. As the migrant population arguably has one of the most vulnerable profiles in the current health crisis, the aim of this study is to assess the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS) across native and migrant residents in Italy, and to compare scores across these two populations. Other personal attitudes to the current restrictions were considered. Preliminary psychometrics were tested in a version of the translated instrument with an independent sample. A second independent sample was used to analyse the differences between migrant and native adults. The results showed no differences between the new version and the previous Spanish adaptation or the original instrument. Moreover, no differences were found between the migrant and non-migrant group. BRCS scores were predicted by attitudes toward Covid-19 but not by migrant or native group. These results suggest that the BRCS may be a useful tool to measure resilience in Italy at time of pandemic, irrespective of cultural differences.

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Accessibility of Education in Conditions of Health Crisis

Anuarul Universitatii Petre Andrei din Iasi Fascicula Drept Stiinte Economice Stiinte Politice ◽

10.18662/upasw/25/38 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 25 (0) ◽

pp. 93-116

Author(s):

Gabriela Neagu ◽

Keyword(s):

Educational System ◽

Education System ◽

International Research ◽

Social Systems ◽

Educational Institutions ◽

Health Crisis ◽

Current Health

The priority objective of the authorities in the context of the current health crisis is to maintain a balance between protecting the health of the population and the functioning of social systems as close as possible to normal. Regarding the educational system, the closure of educational institutions or the conduct of classes in an alternative or "hybrid" manner (some students will be physically present in classrooms and another will be online for certain periods of time) are measures by which it is protected. the health of students and teachers and which are part of the "normalization" of the functionality of the system. In this paper we intend to analyze some of the challenges that the education system must respond. The data we will use in this material from national and international research and INS and Eurostat data.

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Social care for the migrant population in Spain: needs and strengths of organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic and infodemic

International Journal of Migration Health and Social Care ◽

10.1108/ijmhsc-10-2020-0097 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Tamara Bueno Doral ◽

María Lara ◽

Noelia García‐Castillo

Keyword(s):

Third Sector ◽

Migrant Population ◽

Health Crisis ◽

Content Type ◽

Good Practices ◽

Four Dimensions ◽

The Past ◽

Open Questions ◽

Third Sector Organisations ◽

Key Issues

Purpose In the past months, the authors have experienced an exceptional global situation that especially affects the most vulnerable population. This paper aims to analyse the needs, strengths and good practices of the organisations that have continued to study with the migrant population during the health crisis. The main objective was to determine how the health, social and communication crisis has affected the management of the organisation itself, the communications with its direct beneficiaries, the communications with the rest of society, as well as the perception that organisations specialised in migration have about how media has communicated the information of COVID-19 and migrant population. Design/methodology/approach The authors have circulated a questionnaire with open questions that covered the four dimensions previously mentioned. Findings The results show the analysis of the answers of 11 of the most important national and international organisations in the field of migration and refuge that operate in Spain. Originality/value Key issues have emerged related not only to the principal management concerns, internal digital communication, the adaptability of external communication and the major effort required to provide information about migration but also to innovative good practices. That other third sector organisations focussed on migration will be able to apply in the future and in other geographic areas.

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The major worldwide stress of healthcare professionals during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic – the international COVISTRESS survey

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0257840 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (10) ◽

pp. e0257840

Author(s):

Sébastien Couarraze ◽

Louis Delamarre ◽

Fouad Marhar ◽

Binh Quach ◽

Jiao Jiao ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Healthcare Workers ◽

Protective Factor ◽

Healthcare Professionals ◽

High Stress ◽

Medical Doctors ◽

Health Crisis ◽

Paramedical Staff ◽

Increased Risk ◽

Stress Levels ◽

Very High

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has initiated an upheaval in society and has been the cause of considerable stress during this period. Healthcare professionals have been on the front line during this health crisis, particularly paramedical staff. The aim of this study was to assess the high level of stress of healthcare workers during the first wave of the pandemic. Materials and methods The COVISTRESS international study is a questionnaire disseminated online collecting demographic and stress-related data over the globe, during the pandemic. Stress levels were evaluated using non-calibrated visual analog scale, from 0 (no stress) to 100 (maximal stress). Results Among the 13,537 individuals from 44 countries who completed the survey from January to June 2020, we included 10,051 workers (including 1379 healthcare workers, 631 medical doctors and 748 paramedical staff). The stress levels during the first wave of the pandemic were 57.8 ± 33 in the whole cohort, 65.3 ± 29.1 in medical doctors, and 73.6 ± 27.7 in paramedical staff. Healthcare professionals and especially paramedical staff had the highest levels of stress (p < 0.001 vs non-healthcare workers). Across all occupational categories, women had systematically significantly higher levels of work-related stress than men (p < 0.001). There was a negative correlation between age and stress level (r = -0.098, p < 0.001). Healthcare professionals demonstrated an increased risk of very-high stress levels (>80) compared to other workers (OR = 2.13, 95% CI 1.87–2.41). Paramedical staff risk for very-high levels of stress was higher than doctors’ (1.88, 1.50–2.34). The risk of high levels of stress also increased in women (1.83, 1.61–2.09; p < 0.001 vs. men) and in people aged <50 (1.45, 1.26–1.66; p < 0.001 vs. aged >50). Conclusions The first wave of the pandemic was a major stressful event for healthcare workers, especially paramedical staff. Among individuals, women were the most at risk while age was a protective factor.

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Strengths-Based Assessment for Suicide Prevention: Reasons for Life as a Protective Factor From Yup’ik Alaska Native Youth Suicide

Assessment ◽

10.1177/1073191119875789 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 107319111987578 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

James Allen ◽

Stacy M. Rasmus ◽

Carlotta Ching Ting Fok ◽

Billy Charles ◽

Joseph Trimble ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Protective Factors ◽

American Indian ◽

Suicide Prevention ◽

Cause Of Death ◽

Alaska Native ◽

Suicide Risk ◽

Protective Factor ◽

Well Being ◽

Health Crisis ◽

Native Youth

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among American Indian and Alaska Native youth, and within the Alaska Native youth subpopulation, the leading cause of death. In response to this public health crisis, American Indian and Alaska Native communities have created strategies to protect their young people by building resilience using localized Indigenous well-being frameworks and cultural strengths. These approaches to suicide prevention emphasize promotion of protective factors over risk reduction. A measure of culturally based protective factors from suicide risk has potential to assess outcomes from these strengths-based, culturally grounded suicide prevention efforts, and can potentially address several substantive concerns regarding direct assessment of suicide risk. We report on the Reasons for Life (RFL) scale, a measure of protective factors from suicide, testing psychometric properties including internal structure with 302 rural Alaska Native Yup’ik youth. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed the RFL is best described through three distinct first-order factors organized under one higher second-order factor. Item response theory analyses identified 11 satisfactorily functioning items. The RFL correlates with other measures of more general protective factors. Implications of these findings are described, including generalizability to other American Indian and Alaska Native, other Indigenous, and other culturally distinct suicide disparities groups.

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Prácticum virtual en Educación Física: entre pandemia e incertidumbre (Virtual prácticum in Physical Education: between the pandemic and uncertainty)

Retos ◽

10.47197/retos.v42i0.87180 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

pp. 798-804

Author(s):

Franklin Castillo-Retamal ◽

Lissa Silva-Reyes ◽

Miguel Muñoz-González ◽

Lorena López-Toro ◽

Paulina Plaza-Cofré ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Physical Education ◽

Quantitative Approach ◽

Training Process ◽

Health Crisis ◽

Face To Face ◽

Current Health ◽

The Subject ◽

Health Situation ◽

Descriptive Survey ◽

Virtual Practice

La situación sanitaria actual ha obstaculizado muchos procesos formativos de modalidad presencial impactando en las Prácticas de Síntesis Profesional (PSP), provocando que estudiantes finalicen su Proceso Formativo (PF) en la virtualidad. La investigación tuvo como objetivo conocer la percepción de estudiantes de Educación Física (EF) frente a la Práctica Virtual de Síntesis Profesional. La metodología tuvo un enfoque cuantitativo y la recolección de los datos fue a través de una encuesta de tipo descriptiva, aplicada a 47 egresados de EF de una universidad chilena durante el 2020. Se concluye que los egresados se encontraban preparados para los cambios que se presentaron durante la crisis sanitaria, aceptando la situación dada este año y adaptándose a ella, la cual debe considerarse como una oportunidad de innovación de la asignatura. Abstract .The current health situation has hampered many face-to-face training processes, affecting Professional Synthesis Practices (PSP) and causing students to complete their Training Process (TP) in virtually. The objective of the investigation was to know the perception of students regarding the Virtual Practice of Professional Synthesis. The methodology had a quantitative approach and the data was collected through a descriptive survey, applied to 47 Physical Education (PE) teachers who graduated from a Chilean university during 2020. It is concluded that the graduates were prepared to the changes that occurred during the health crisis, accepting the situation given this year and adapting to it, which should be considered as an opportunity for innovation in the subject.

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don de la siesta

Imafronte ◽

10.6018/imafronte.469051 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-2

Author(s):

Víctor Sánchez de la Peña

Keyword(s):

First Person ◽

Health Crisis ◽

Person Memory ◽

Current Health ◽

Crisis Situation ◽

The Everyday ◽

To Come ◽

At Home

Miguel Ángel Hernández aborda la siesta como una resistencia en lo cotidiano. Incluyendo teoría, literatura, arte y autobiografía (pues el autor se nos presenta como un buen practicante de estas siestas), nos vemos sumergidos en un mapa de referencias sobre el sesteo que son miradas desde la situación actual de crisis sanitaria. Su escritura tiene la capacidad de, alguna forma, bajar a nuestros contextos, creando en el lector una sensación de común, de lazos culturales y vínculos sociales marcados por la necesidad de volver a pensar desde este momento de descanso colectivo (aunque cada uno lo practique en su casa) tras el mediodía. En esta reseña nos centraremos especialmente en su forma de entrelazar este ejercicio de memoria en primera persona con referencias artísticas y teóricas, siendo coherente con un formato de escritura basado en anotaciones mucho más horizontales y abiertas que una investigación rigurosamente acotada. Miguel Ángel Hernández approaches the nap as a resistance in the everyday. Including theory, literature, art and autobiography (as the author presents himself as a good practitioner of these naps), we are immersed in a map of references on napping that are looked at from the current health crisis situation. His writing has the capacity to come down to our contexts, creating in the reader a sense of commonality, of cultural ties and social links marked by the need to rethink from this moment of collective rest (even if each one practices it at home) after midday. In this review we will focus especially on his way of interweaving this exercise of first-person memory with artistic and theoretical references, being coherent with a writing format based on annotations that are much more horizontal and open than a rigorously bounded investigation.

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The Role of Resilience for Migrants and Refugees’ Mental Health in Times of COVID-19

Healthcare ◽

10.3390/healthcare9091131 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (9) ◽

pp. 1131

Author(s):

Sara Solà-Sales ◽

Natalia Pérez-González ◽

Julie Van Hoey ◽

Isabel Iborra-Marmolejo ◽

María José Beneyto-Arrojo ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Life Experiences ◽

Intervention Programs ◽

Migrant Group ◽

International Protection ◽

Current Health ◽

Resilience Training ◽

The Relationship ◽

Mixed Component

Migrants and refugees need international protection, particularly during a crisis such as the current health pandemic. The aim of this research was to examine the mental health and attitudes towards COVID-19 in migrants and refugees compared to the general Spanish population. Moreover, the nature of resilience was examined as a mixed component though life experiences. For this proposal, an interview was carried out in a sample of 245 participants who volunteered to participate in the study. The sample was divided into Spanish non-migrants, Spanish migrants, non-Spanish migrants and refugees. Attitudes towards COVID-19, resilience (based on BRCS) and mental health (based on DASS-21) were measured. The results obtained can be described as follows: (i) Migrant participants indicated worse mental health than non-migrants, and within the migrant group, refugees presented worse scores; (ii) No differences were found in attitudes towards COVID-19 in any of the subgroups; (iii) A moderating effect of group was found for the relationship between resilience and mental health but not between resilience and fear of COVID-19. These results might be of great interest in making visible the vulnerability of migrants and specifically refugees, and the proposal of intervention programs based on resilience training.

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The Role of Temperament in the Onset of Suicidal Ideation and Behaviors across Adolescence: Findings from a 10-year Longitudinal Study of Mexican-Origin Youth

10.31234/osf.io/96ez2 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Katherine M. Lawson ◽

John K. Kellerman ◽

Evan Kleiman ◽

Wiebke Bleidorn ◽

Christopher James Hopwood ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Suicidal Ideation ◽

Effortful Control ◽

Protective Factor ◽

Negative Emotionality ◽

Mexican Origin ◽

Positive Emotionality ◽

Health Crisis ◽

Increased Risk ◽

Mexican Origin Youth ◽

And Behaviors

Suicide among young people is an increasingly prevalent and devastating public health crisis around the world. To reduce the rate of suicide, it is important to identify factors that can help us better predict suicidal ideation and behaviors. Adolescent temperament (Effortful Control, Negative Emotionality, Positive Emotionality) may be a source of risk and resilience for the onset of suicidal ideation, plans, and attempts. The present study uses longitudinal data from a large community sample of Mexican-origin youth (N=674), assessed annually from age 12 to 21, to examine how temperament is associated with the onset of suicidal ideation and behaviors during adolescence and young adulthood. Results indicate that higher levels of Effortful Control (Activation Control, Inhibitory Control, Attention) are associated with decreased probability of experiencing the onset of suicidal ideation, plans, and attempts, whereas higher levels of Negative Emotionality (particularly Aggression, Frustration, and Depressed Mood) are associated with increased probability of experiencing the onset of suicidal ideation and behaviors. Positive Emotionality (Surgency, Affiliation) was not associated with the onset of suicidal ideation and behaviors. Supplemental analyses showed conceptually similar findings for the Big Five, with Conscientiousness associated with decreased risk, Neuroticism associated with increased risk, and the other three dimensions showing largely null results. No meaningful differences emerged between boys and girls, or youth born in the U.S. versus Mexico. Overall, these findings suggest that adolescent temperament serves as both a risk factor (via Negative Emotionality) and a protective factor (via Effortful Control) for suicidal ideation and behaviors in Mexican-origin youth.

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Resilience, mood, and mental health outcomes during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria

10.31234/osf.io/8nraq ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Elena Psederska ◽

Georgi Vasilev ◽

Briana DeAngelis ◽

Kiril Bozgunov ◽

Dimitar Nedelchev ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Substance Use ◽

Protective Factor ◽

Negative Mood ◽

Well Being ◽

Emotional States ◽

Depression And Anxiety ◽

Health Crisis ◽

The Face ◽

Low Prevalence

Background: The fundamental challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic may have lasting negative effects on the quality of mental health worldwide. Resilience is considered an important protective factor in reducing the risk of psychopathology in the face of various adverse events, such as the ongoing health crisis. The aims of the current study were to: (1) evaluate the predictive utility of resilience in accounting for positive and negative moods, substance use, depression and anxiety; and (2) compare negative and positive moods experienced before the pandemic to emotions reported during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria, when the country still had low prevalence of infections and fatalities. Methods: 179 Bulgarian participants completed the international online Minnesota Global Survey on Stress and Resilience in the Face of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), which included measures of resilience, depression and anxiety, substance use, positive and negative moods experienced both before and during the COVID-19 outbreak. Results: Resilience predicted higher levels of positive affect and lower anxiety, depression, and negative mood during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in Bulgaria. A significant increase was found in negative mood and a corresponding decrease in positive mood in the time since COVID-19 began spreading compared to before the pandemic.Conclusions: Results suggest that the initial wave of the COVID-19 crisis impacted individuals’ well-being, even in countries with relatively low prevalence of COVID-19 and associated fatalities. In this challenging global setting, resilience may serve as a buffer against negative emotional states and psychological distress.

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Circular Economy and Relationship-Based View

Symphonya Emerging Issues in Management ◽

10.4468/2020.1.12casalegno.civera.mosca.freeman ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 149

Author(s):

Cecilia Casalegno ◽

Chiara Civera ◽

Fabrizio Mosca ◽

R. Edward Freeman

Keyword(s):

Value Creation ◽

Circular Economy ◽

Environmental Benefits ◽

Health Crisis ◽

Roles And Responsibilities ◽

Dominant Logic ◽

Current Health ◽

Physical Resources ◽

Value Creation Process ◽

New Strategies

In this paper, we provide early insights about a rethinking of the dominant logic of circular economy (CE) systems, which are described by the literature as still too strongly focused on the circularity of physical resources primarily for economic and environmental benefits. We could observe that the traditional narrative of the CE is being challenged by new strategies that include the relationships among stakeholders and the reallocation of stakeholder roles. This is even more evident in the current health crisis, COVID-19. Circular economy can have higher integrated impacts beyond the mere economic and environmental spheres if it is conceptualized as an open and dynamic loop of relationships, where stakeholders’ power, roles and responsibilities overlap and converge into an emergent joint-value creation process.

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