Examining the Impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic and Social Distancing on the Health of People With Mobility Disabilities

Goddard, Kelsey S.; Schulz, Jonathan A.; Nzuki, Isaac M.; Hall, Jean P.

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2022.875880

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“…Notably, this study contributes to understanding the ways in which the COVID-19 impacts differed for people with disabilities, provides insights on engaging with the community to collect data and inform policy, and underscores the need for this critical population to be included in the demographics of routine data collection and dissemination. The recent literature also supports similar findings of more severe COVID-19 impacts on this population [ 32 ].…”

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Social, Economic and Overall Health Impacts of COVID-19 on People Living with Disabilities in King County, WA

Turcheti

Laurent

Delgado

et al. 2022

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated mitigation measures to reduce the spread of disease affected the social, economic, and overall health of individuals. Quantitative administrative datasets typically did not contain demographic information that allowed for reporting or analysis of the impacts of COVID-19 on people living with disabilities. Understanding the experiences of this population during the pandemic can inform the design of public health responses that are more robust and better connected to community. This paper describes a qualitative participatory study with a diverse sample of people living with disabilities in King County, WA. Through 2 listening sessions and 35 semi-structured interviews, it examines what impacts COVID-19 brought for people living with disabilities; elucidates the supports that were helpful in addressing COVID-19 impacts; examines inequities faced by the disability community; and sheds light on how to engage with this community to inform the public health emergency response. The process, protocols, findings, and lessons learned are replicable by other local health departments and could be incorporated as part of routine data collection and considered for future public health emergencies.

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Section: Discussion and Lessons Learnedsupporting

confidence: 82%

Social, Economic and Overall Health Impacts of COVID-19 on People Living with Disabilities in King County, WA

Turcheti

Laurent

Delgado

et al. 2022

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“…For instance, in-person supportive services, such as community-based rehabilitation, may be disrupted 146 , and people with mental disabilities (e.g., children with autism) may face worse mental health outcomes due to increased social isolation and suspension of therapy 68 , 147 . The enforcement of physical distancing measures also inadvertently reduces access to medication, healthcare services and transportation for adults with mobility disabilities 148 . In addition, their reduced mobility and social connections limits their access to social welfare services, such as food rations 109 .…”

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A scoping review of the impacts of COVID-19 physical distancing measures on vulnerable population groups

Taeihagh

Tan

2023

Nat Commun

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Most governments have enacted physical or social distancing measures to control COVID-19 transmission. Yet little is known about the socio-economic trade-offs of these measures, especially for vulnerable populations, who are exposed to increased risks and are susceptible to adverse health outcomes. To examine the impacts of physical distancing measures on the most vulnerable in society, this scoping review screened 39,816 records and synthesised results from 265 studies worldwide documenting the negative impacts of physical distancing on older people, children/students, low-income populations, migrant workers, people in prison, people with disabilities, sex workers, victims of domestic violence, refugees, ethnic minorities, and people from sexual and gender minorities. We show that prolonged loneliness, mental distress, unemployment, income loss, food insecurity, widened inequality and disruption of access to social support and health services were unintended consequences of physical distancing that impacted these vulnerable groups and highlight that physical distancing measures exacerbated the vulnerabilities of different vulnerable populations.

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“…These populations have had to experience unique challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has been "a tale of two stories": the infectious outbreak and disability. Living with disabilities, these populations are at higher risk for contracting the emerging coronavirus compared with the general population, besides facing psychological distress (Busch et al, 2022;Dehghansai et al, 2021;Hu et al, 2021;Kaneda et al, 2021), due to several, intersecting mediators (Jesus et al, 2020;Lund, 2020;Lund et al, 2020;Jesus et al, 2021a;Jesus et al, 2021b;Kamalakannan et al, 2021;Goddard et al, 2022), as mentioned before. Dehghansai et al (2021) performed a qualitative study interviewing seven Australian para-athletes, in order to capture the unique challenges of athletes with disabilities during the outbreak.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…All this has dramatically impacted the physical level of entire populations, especially affecting socially vulnerable communities, such as populations with disabilities ( Jesus et al, 2020 ; Jesus et al, 2021a ; Jesus et al, 2021b ; Kamalakannan et al, 2021 ), who presented greater infection risks due to multiple, intersecting mediators (i.e., lack of accessible evidence-based information, structural barriers, difficulties in complying with COVID-19 induced restrictions, institutional ableism in health care and unethical disadvantages in the rationing of the delivery of lifesaving and critical care provisions), as well as psychological distress and trauma (due to the fear of COVID-19, isolation, loneliness, deaths and illnesses of loved ones and community members, retaliation, and interpersonal violence, among others) ( Jesus et al, 2020 ; Lund, 2020 ; Lund et al, 2020 ; Jesus et al, 2021a ; Jesus et al, 2021b ; Kamalakannan et al, 2021 ; Goddard et al, 2022 ).…”

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A tale of two stories: COVID-19 and disability. A critical scoping review of the literature on the effects of the pandemic among athletes with disabilities and para-athletes

Puce

Trabelsi²,

Ammar³

et al. 2022

Front. Physiol.

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The still ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically impacted athletes, and, in particular, para-athletes and athletes with disabilities. However, there is no scholarly appraisal on this topic. Therefore, a critical scoping review of the literature was conducted. We were able to retrieve sixteen relevant studies. The sample size ranged from 4 to 183. Most studies were observational, cross-sectional, and questionnaire-based surveys, two studies were interventional, and two were longitudinal. One study was a technical feasibility study. Almost all studies were conducted as single-country studies, with the exception of one multi-country investigation. Five major topics/themes could be identified: namely, 1) impact of COVID-19-induced confinement on training and lifestyles in athletes with disabilities/para-athletes; 2) impact of COVID-19-induced confinement on mental health in athletes with disabilities/para-athletes; 3) impact of COVID-19-induced confinement on performance outcomes in athletes with disabilities/para-athletes; 4) risk of contracting COVID-19 among athletes with disabilities/para-athletes; and, finally, 5) impact of COVID-19 infection on athletes with disabilities/para-athletes. The scholarly literature assessed was highly heterogeneous, with contrasting findings, and various methodological limitations. Based on our considerations, we recommend that standardized, reliable tools should be utilized and new, specific questionnaires should be created, tested for reliability, and validated. High-quality, multi-center, cross-countries, longitudinal surveys should be conducted to overcome current shortcomings. Involving all relevant actors and stakeholders, including various national and international Paralympic Committees, as a few studies have done, is fundamental: community-led, participatory research can help identify gaps in the current knowledge about sports-related practices among the population of athletes with disabilities during an unprecedented period of measures undertaken that have significantly affected everyday life. Moreover, this could advance the field, by capturing the needs of para-athletes and athletes with disabilities and enabling the design of a truly “disability-inclusive response” to COVID-19 and similar future conditions/situations. Furthermore, follow-up studies on COVID-19-infected para-athletes and athletes with disabilities should be conducted. Evidence of long-term effects of COVID-19 is available only for able-bodied athletes, for whom cardiorespiratory residual alterations and mental health issues a long time after COVID-19 have been described.

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Examining the Impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic and Social Distancing on the Health of People With Mobility Disabilities

Cited by 7 publications

References 21 publications

Social, Economic and Overall Health Impacts of COVID-19 on People Living with Disabilities in King County, WA

Social, Economic and Overall Health Impacts of COVID-19 on People Living with Disabilities in King County, WA

A scoping review of the impacts of COVID-19 physical distancing measures on vulnerable population groups

A tale of two stories: COVID-19 and disability. A critical scoping review of the literature on the effects of the pandemic among athletes with disabilities and para-athletes

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