Disparities, desperation, and divisiveness: Coping with COVID-19 in India.

Mukherjee, Soumyadeep

doi:10.1037/tra0000682

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“…Stressors associated with the COVID-19 outbreak are multi-faceted, unevenly distributed in society, and impact those across the age spectrum (Mukherjee, 2020 ; Prime et al, 2020 ; Fortuna et al, 2020 ). For youth, noted stressors in emerging studies have mostly focused on ramifications of quarantine in the early weeks of the outbreak, including social isolation, changes to routine, and lack of activity.…”

Section: Coping and Mental Health In Early Adolescence During Covid-1mentioning

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Coping and Mental Health in Early Adolescence during COVID-19

Hussong

Midgette

Thomas

et al. 2021

Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol

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The current longitudinal study examines changes in overall mental health symptomatology from before to after the COVID-19 outbreak in youth from the southeastern United States as well as the potential mitigating effects of self-efficacy, optimism, and coping. A sample of 105 parent–child dyads participated in the study (49% boys; 81% European American, 1% Alaska Native/American Indian, 9% Asian/Asian American; 4% Black/African American; 4% Latinx; and 4% other; 87% mothers; 25% high school graduate without college education; 30% degree from 4-year college; 45% graduate or professional school). Parents completed surveys when children were aged 6–9, 8–12, 9–13, and 12–16, with the last assessments occurring between May 13, 2020 and July 1, 2020 during the COVID-19 outbreak. Children also completed online surveys at ages 11–16 assessing self-efficacy, optimism, and coping. Multi-level modeling analyses showed a within-person increase in mental health symptoms from before to after the outbreak after controlling for changes associated with maturation. Symptom increases were mitigated in youth with greater self-efficacy and (to some extent) problem-focused engaged coping, and exacerbated in youth with greater emotion-focused engaged and disengaged coping. Implications of this work include the importance of reinforcing self-efficacy in youth during times of crisis, such as the pandemic, and the potential downsides of emotion-focused coping as an early response to the crisis for youth.

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Section: Coping and Mental Health In Early Adolescence During Covid-1mentioning

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Coping and Mental Health in Early Adolescence during COVID-19

Hussong

Midgette

Thomas

et al. 2021

Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol

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“…In order to contain the virus spread, a nationwide lockdown was imposed on March 24, 2020. The country was successful in limiting the number of cases initially with a slew of preventive and containment measures [ 37 ]. However, due to economic and social reasons, the lockdown was gradually eased.…”

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An Aspect of Kumbh Mela Massive Gathering and COVID-19

Quadri

Padala

2021

Curr Trop Med Rep

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Purpose of Review Kumbh Mela , a religious gathering of Hindus held in India, is the largest massive gathering event in the world. The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented healthcare crisis in recent times with effects reverberating in all spheres of human lives. India has registered the second highest number of COVID-19 cases. This paper aims to dwell in the religious and social background of Kumbh Mela massive gathering, as well as the ritualistic practices that could potentially entail public health risks in the current situation. It also aims to identify possible preparatory and interventional measures to evade such risks. Recent Findings In recent years, the increase in the number of people attending the Kumbh Mela has been phenomenal. Congregants are put up at the holy sites for several days. The sheer number of people assembling at the religious venues poses a great challenge to manage the crowds, to cater to the requirements of basic amenities, and to meet their healthcare needs. Some of the ritualistic practices could heighten the risk for transmission of respiratory pathogens. The COVID-19 pandemic has escalated over the past few months in India. The pandemic is expected to sustain its tempo in India throughout the foreseeable future. Organization of the forthcoming Kumbh Mela needs meticulous planning. Summary Kumbh Mela is a Hindu religious gathering at the banks of India’s rivers, held periodically. It witnesses assembly of huge numbers of people and has the potential to amplify the COVID-19 pandemic in India; this could overwhelm the healthcare system.

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“…Multiple preliminary studies have demonstrated the prevalence of various common mental health concerns among individuals in India (Ahmad et al., 2020; Saikarthik et al, 2020). Apart from its impact on the general public, the pandemic and lockdown have also disproportionately impacted vulnerable sections of the society and widened existing disparities (Mukherjee, 2020). Some of the groups most affected by the pandemic are daily‐wage earners who depend on their everyday livelihood for survival, migrant workers stuck in their places of work without any income or means of transport to return home, women and children facing increased levels of violence and abuse, persons with pre‐existing mental health concerns facing worsening of issues, and individuals from the queer community having to live with disapproving and sometimes violent families (Golechha, 2020; Singh, 2020a, 2020b; Vora et al., 2020).…”

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“…The second is related to the challenges faced by those who are providing these services and the support they need. As is evident from the literature (Mukherjee, 2020) and from the nature of calls received by some of the leading helplines in India (Ravindran et al., 2020), concerns experienced by the general public, and especially those belonging to vulnerable sections of the society, are often psychosocial in nature. The distress experienced by individuals is not just rooted in their psyches or in the fear of the infection, but is also rooted in their social and economic contexts.…”

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Psychosocial response to COVID‐19 pandemic in India: Helpline counsellors’ experiences and perspectives

Joshi

Tammana

Babre

et al. 2020

Couns and Psychother Res

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The COVID‐19 pandemic presents a threat to physical and psychosocial health of individuals. In lieu of the subsequent lockdown and containment measures, helpline counselling becomes a viable method of accessing psychosocial services during the pandemic. The present paper describes experiences of counsellors working with a special COVID‐19 counselling helpline initiated by iCALL, a national‐level technology‐assisted counselling service of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India, which aims to address the psychosocial impact of the pandemic and the lockdown. The paper is based on two focus group interviews held with 11 counsellors during the initial two months of the helpline's functioning. Findings of the study highlight the diverse profile of the callers, with individuals belonging to different strata of society and to marginalised communities. The nature of concerns presented by the callers were often a mix of psychological, relational and practical issues. The resultant distress emanated from an interplay of these factors with the relational contexts, their social locations and social structures the individuals were embedded in. This highlighted the need for conceptualising and responding from a psychosocial lens, whereby interventions involved traditional counselling approaches and strategies for addressing determinants of distress by connecting callers to required ground‐level resources. Counsellors’ engagement with this process impacted their professional and personal selves, necessitating the need for structured and continuous training, supervision and support. At a larger level, the counsellors’ narratives asserted the need for adopting a psychosocial paradigm for conceptualising and addressing mental health concerns in India.

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Disparities, desperation, and divisiveness: Coping with COVID-19 in India.

Cited by 39 publications

References 4 publications

Coping and Mental Health in Early Adolescence during COVID-19

Coping and Mental Health in Early Adolescence during COVID-19

An Aspect of Kumbh Mela Massive Gathering and COVID-19

Psychosocial response to COVID‐19 pandemic in India: Helpline counsellors’ experiences and perspectives

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