The impact of COVID-19 restrictions on social relationships of forensic psychiatric outpatients with preexisting social network-related problems: A mixed methods study

This study aimed to explore the impact of the COVID-19 restrictions on social relationships of forensic psychiatric outpatients with preexisting social network-related problems. Data from 70 participants of an ongoing randomized controlled trial, investigating the effectiveness of a social network intervention among forensic psychiatric outpatients, were examined. Demographic characteristics, quality of social relationships, loneliness, and social support were assessed at baseline. During the COVID-19 pandemic, an additional questionnaire that contained quantitative and qualitative questions regarding the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on social relationships was administered. Participants showed high levels of loneliness and dissatisfaction with social relationships before COVID-19. The majority of forensic outpatients perceived no changes on social relationships due to the COVID-19 restrictions. Qualitative results revealed some participants already lived socially isolated. Negative changes on social relationships were related to deterioration of social contacts, interruption of daytime activities, changed mental health care, and well-being. Emotional loneliness predicted deteriorated general and romantic relationships. These findings suggest that social relationships of forensic patients with preexisting social network-related problems remain of concern throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Journal of Forensic Psychology Research & Practice is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

How Has the Pandemic Affected Social Values? From the Perspective of Preservice Teachers, Is It Erosion or Gain?

This research aims to examine from the perspective of pre-service teachers how values, which have a great function in ensuring social order and welfare, maintaining healthy interpersonal relations, adapting the behaviour of the individual with the expectations of social life, and preventing possible social problems, are affected by the pandemic process.The research was carried out using phenomenology method, which is a qualitative research method. The study group of the research consists of twenty-five pre-service teachers. While determining the study group, easily accessible sampling method was used. In the research, a questionnaire containing four open questions developed by the researchers was used as a data collection tool. Content analysis was used in the analysis of the data. As a result of the research, it was determined that the pandemic positively affected some values such as altruism, benevolence, solidarity, gratitude, resignation, cleanliness, giving importance to being healthy, and negatively affected some values such as hospitality, freedom, equality, kindness, perseverance, and aesthetics. On the other hand, it is seen that some values such as patience, solidarity, savings and being scientific take their place among the values that both erode and gain from due to the differences in the perspective of pre-service teachers towards life. In addition, it was concluded that the pre-service teachers have a concern that the eroded values will force humanity to face problems such as various health problems, an asocial life, emotional deprivation, depression, digital addiction, selfishness, unemployment, anxiety, and impoliteness in the future.

Taking Stock: The Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on University-Community Engagement

This article examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on university-community engagement (UCE) as an academic mission. The aim of the work is to outline the ways in which UCE has been functioning since the turbulent onset of the pandemic in the spring of 2020. The study undertakes a systematic review of the UCE literature to identify major trends, raising important questions regarding ongoing scholarly discussions and managerial/policy debates on the subject. The results show seven distinct types of engagement responses by higher education institutions (HEIs) across the globe. In addition, the review identified that HEIs faced difficulties in either adapting existing engagement practices or while establishing new ones, especially regarding the efficient use of digital technologies. In terms of implications, the findings suggest that the pandemic has resulted in new debates about the societal role of HEIs, with medium- and long-term implications for policy and management.

The CCP after the Zero-Covid Fail

China has two repressive systems that exist simultaneously: the highly coercive and surveilled system in Xinjiang, and the trust-based model of everyday repression prevalent throughout the rest of the country. The trust-based model has undergirded grassroots governance in China and facilitated the routine implementation of Zero-Covid. Drawing on a protest event dataset, I analyze the key characteristics of the covid protests erupted in November and December of 2022, before situating them in the larger context of China's political future under Xi Jinping's rule. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has responded to the protests with a combination of concession and repression. But neither the carrot nor the stick is able to fundamentally address the deep-rooted social problems or halt the tide of dissent. Coupled with structural economic challenges, these protests could be the harbinger of a new era of contentious state-society relations in China, the seeds of which were sown years ago–only precipitated and underscored by the CCP's covid debacle.

The Entrepreneurial Perspective in Impact Investing Research: A Research Agenda

The Covid-19 pandemic, climate crises, and regulatory changes are only a few reasons for the growing public alertness regarding environmental and social problems. This has caused a shift in the mindset of companies and investors in terms of sustainability and the long-term impact of innovation. Thus, sustainable investments, particularly impact investments, have continued to grow in importance and momentum to shift the focus on rebuilding the economy more sustainable and future-oriented. The current state of research in this field indicates that most academic contributions are mainly about theoretical considerations and deal with various areas. There is no aggregated state of the art in academia with a focus point on impact investment for entrepreneurship. Yet, entrepreneurs are seen as key actors to drive sustainable innovation. Compared to the current growing impact investment practices and the necessity of a strategy to get financing, the topic is still relatively unexplored scientifically. In this research, a systematic literature review is conducted to further review, evaluate, and analyze the current research agenda on impact investment and show how it relates to entrepreneurship research. In particular, impact investment-related decision criteria, as well as challenges associated with this, will be presented. This contributes to the nascent literature on impact investing by documenting how impact investors stand in relation to entrepreneurial ventures and what measurement frameworks and models are already scientifically analyzed, which has practical implications for both impact investors and entrepreneurs. © 2022, Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited. All right reserved.

The family dynamics of COVID-19 survivors: The perspectives of parents and their children.

Objectives: To explore the family dynamics of coronavirus disease-2019 survivors from the perspective of parents and children. Method: The descriptive, qualitative study was conducted from May 27 to December 7, 2021, in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, and comprised parents and children of individuals who survived a coronavirus disease-2019 infection. Data was collected through in-depth interviews. Data was analysed using thematic analysis. RESULTS: The descriptive, qualitative study was conducted from May 27 to December 7, 2021, in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, and comprised parents and children of individuals who survived a coronavirus disease-2019 infection. Data was collected through in-depth interviews. Data was analysed using thematic analysis. CONCLUSIONS: Coronavirus disease-2019 patients, in addition to medical support need psychosocial support for better health outcomes.

Ensemble Learning Approach for Predicting Job Satisfaction on Freelancing Jobs in Sri Lanka

Due to the recent social and economic problems that have occurred locally and globally, Freelance work has gained more attention recently. Specially, working from home or other appropriate workspaces has become more popular during the Covid-19 pandemic situation. Freelancing is a profession worker working for themselves who can perform contract work or tasks either full-or part-time in a range of job fields. to get more accurate Because of the infrastructure facilities like internet, and the situations like pandemic, it is now possible to earn money online. Online freelancing assigns straightforward jobs to workers via online platforms with greater cost effectiveness. The main objective of this study is to build a model through Machine Learning (ML) to predict job satisfaction in freelancing jobs. Primary data used in this research is gathered with help of current freelancers results. After the pre-processing is completed, individual algorithms Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Decision Tree (J48), Random Forest, and Multilayer Perception (MLP) separate algorithms and Ensemble Learning approach used as a combination of the above five algorithms. Among them, the best accuracy, precision, recall, and f-measure values as well as lower error rates were obtained through the Ensemble Learning algorithm. The evaluation result proved the effectiveness of our proposed approach. © 2022 IEEE.

Las trabajadoras domésticas latinoamericanas frente a la pandemia de Covid-19

La pandemia de Covid-19 planteó problemas sociales inéditos, como la pérdida de ingresos por incapacidad de acceder al lugar de trabajo. Las trabajadoras domésticas fueron uno de los grupos más afectados por los despidos y la reducción del tiempo de trabajo. Desde una perspectiva de regulación comparada, y sobre la base de un análisis de las normas instauradas durante los primeros nueve meses de la pandemia de Covid-19, este artículo busca comprender las respuestas institucionales para dar seguridad económica a las trabajadoras domésticas, focalizándose en la tensión entre extender las protecciones legales propias del trabajo asalariado o expandir las políticas sociales vigentes.Alternate abstract:The Covid-19 pandemic raised unprecedented social problems, such as the loss of income due to loss of access to the workplace. Domestic workers were one of the groups most affected by layoffs or working-time reductions. From a comparative regulation perspective and based on an analysis of the norms established during the first nine months of the pandemic, this article seeks to understand the institutional measures to provide economic security to paid domestic workers, focusing on the tension between extending the legal protections of employees or expanding current social policies.

The Digital Divide in the Post-corona Era: Focused on Social Participation

With the worldwide spread of COVID-19, existing face-to-face activities, especially social activities, have been incorporated as part of online services in the pandemic era. Therefore, the digital divide that continues to change with the development of technology has also become a serious social problem in the aftermath of COVID-19. This study aims to illuminate how the divide in a more digitized society and changes in Internet use caused by COVID-19 affect satisfaction with social participation activities. The analysis revealed that the motivation to use digital devices has a static effect on satisfaction with social participation activities. The variance in Internet social participation due to COVID-19 showed a significant mediating effect between digital motivation and social participation satisfaction. Furthermore, mobile usage skills were found to have static moderating effects between digital motivation and variance in Internet social participation, digital motivation, and satisfaction with social participation. These results suggest that there is a clear gap in social participation according to individual digital capabilities in the spread of information and communication technology services after COVID-19. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Some Social and Administrative Problems facing health cadres on receiving Corona-virus (COVID-19) Vaccine: Field Study in Vaccination Centers in Riyadh

The main objective of this study is to reveal the reality of social and administrative problems related to planning, organization, orientation and control, facing the health cadres during receiving Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccine in the centers concerned with vaccinations in Riyadh City. This study has used the social survey methodology with the comprehensive enumeration method. The study tool is applied to (378) researched persons of health cadres in vaccination centers of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccine in Riyadh City. The study results have revealed that that the level of social problems faced by the health cadres in vaccination centers of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccine according to the weighted arithmetic average value equals (1,79) with a very high degree, and with a standard deviation (0.89);which refers to the agreement of the workers in those centers of their estimation of the existence of those social problems at a very high degree. The most significant of problems are: not feeling comfortable when going home due to their fear of infection transmission to family members, work takes most of their time, in addition to limiting taking part in social duties due to work circumstances. Concerning the level of administrative problems facing health cadres in vaccination centers of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccine, the arithmetic average reaches (2,85) with a moderate degree, and with standard deviation of (1,1);which refers to agreement of the health cadres in those centers in their estimation of the existence degree of those administrative problems with an intermediate degree. The most important of them include: in respect of the planning problems: lack of clarity of work objectives, duplication in providing services, nonexistence of policy and procedure guides for work in vaccination centers of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccine. Concerning the organization problems, the most significant of them are: nonexistence of mission fair distribution, work division in vaccination centers of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccine is not based on specialization basis, and the number of work hours is inappropriate. The most important orientation problems are the lack of clarity of orders and instructions issued in the center, and nonexistence of incentive methods to increase motivation in work. In respect of the control problems, they are represented in nonexistence of control over the work performance in vaccination centers of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccine.

Social Illness Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Regional Study.

INTRODUCTION: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has dramatically changed the epidemiology of several diseases. Much evidence on this has been published in the pandemic phase. In addition, many studies have shown that phenomena such as stress, substance abuse, and burnout increased in the general population during the lockdown. Unfortunately, few studies analyze the post-pandemic phase. STUDY OBJECTIVE: The study aimed to evaluate the trend of broad social problems, such as a diagnosis by the emergency department (ED), in the post-pandemic phase in the Lombardy (Italy) region. METHODS: The study is a retrospective observational cohort study. All admissions to emergency rooms in the Lombardy region registered in the Emergency Urgency OnLine (EUOL) portal made from January through June 2019 were analyzed, having as main causes: psychiatric disorders, self-harm, substance abuse, social disadvantage, and violence. All accesses in emergency rooms in the Lombardy region registered in the EUOL portal made from January 1, 2019 through June 30, 2019 were analyzed and compared with the same period in 2022. RESULTS: The study recorded an increase in the likelihood of events of self-harm (OR = 2.1; 95% CI, 1.8-2.6; P <.0001), substance abuse (OR = 1.2; 95% CI, 1.1-1.3; P <.0001), violence by others (OR = 1.3; 95% CI, 1.2-1.4; P <.0001), and social disadvantage (OR = 1.2; 95% CI, 1.1-1.4; P = .0045). The events are more concentrated in suburban areas (OR = 1.3; 95% CI, 1.2-1.4; P <.001). CONCLUSION: The increase in diagnoses of these social problems in the ED is only the culmination of a phenomenon that hides an underlying rise in social illness. In the post-COVID-19 phase, there is a need to invest in community care and social illness prevention policies.

Analysis of the Metaverse in Society 5.0 for Learning Systems using Meta

There has been a new scientific policy that has been proposed in Japan that is named Society 5.0. This type of society is defined as "a human-centered society that balances economic advancement with the resolution of social problems by a system that highly integrates cyberspace and physical space". For the past couple of years, educational institutions have been using online video conferences for remote learning due to the coronavirus pandemic. This type of learning has some benefits such as convenience and flexibility. However, conversely, it is more isolating and discomforting for some. Additionally, remote online learning has been proposed to be the future of education, which might be disappointing to some students. Development in the metaverse and its hardware might be the solution for a better learning experience. This technology is also aligned with Society 5.0 as cyberspace will integrate more closely with physical space. The student would be able to feel as if they were in an actual classroom using the metaverse, which can be accessed by 3D Virtual World Applications. They would be able to see their peers and hear more of their peers to feel less isolated. © 2022 IEEE.

Learning Creates Australia: Evaluation of the Learner's Journey Social Lab. Research Report. RR-A1139-1

Social labs have recently been gaining traction in a wide range of sectors internationally, and have been applied to many complex social problems, including food system security, poverty and labour market revitalisation. Social labs convene participants to collaborate and work collectively on developing prototypes that are iteratively refined and improved. Ultimately, social labs aspire to make macro-level changes that address a core problem. Learning Creates Australia (LCAust) launched in 2020 just prior to the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with the objective of convening an alliance of people and organisations that could systematically reform the Australian education system to ensure that all young Australians have opportunities to learn and develop the knowledge, skills and competencies that will enable them to become successful in school, find productive employment and actively engage in their communities. LCAust invited the RAND Corporation to conduct a mixed-methods evaluation study that would offer formative feedback to the social lab implementation team and ultimately provide a summative assessment of the progress of the organisation over the first phase of its work. RAND sought to address three research questions in this evaluation: (1) How were the social labs designed and implemented to solve persistent problems of practice?, (2) What factors enabled or constrained implementation?, and (3) To what extent did LCAust's Phase I activities lay the groundwork for systemic impact? This report details findings from this evaluation. [This report was sponsored by Learning Creates Australia. This report was also prepared by RAND Australia.]

Exploring Data from Lived Experiences: A Pandemic Case

Data reasoning and digital literacy skills, especially the ability to find, represent, and accurately interpret the relevant data, are critical in workplaces and lifetime experiences. Given the importance of developing data reasoning skills from learners' experiences, this article aims to describe teacher and student actions that contributed to the student explorations of data from life experiences. The authors share a COVID-19 lesson as an example of how a framework that can be used to support student exploration of current issues and represent them mathematically might be applied to support students as they explore data. The authors focused on COVID-19 because it has tremendously affected the world and their students' lives. Disinformation (i.e., misleading information that deliberately circulated) and misinformation about COVID-19 were widely disseminated across the internet, endangering lives and hampering recovery. The student autonomy allowed in this exploration (e.g., the choice of topics and mathematical questions, collaborators, and presentation modalities) enables the inspiration and diverse perspectives shared by students. [Note: The page range (122-129) shown on the page is incorrect. The correct page range is 122-130.]

Service-Learning for Sustainability: Four Approaches for Engagement, Enrichment, Equity, and Citizenship

The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, a historically American Indian university that is experiencing major climate change impacts from hurricanes, was the setting for four service-learning projects seeking to advance sustainability in a racially diverse community. Courses in American Indian Studies, English, and Social Work, in collaboration with farms, schools, and community organizations, demonstrated benefits to student learning and retention and sought to fulfill faculty members' aspirations for enhanced community wellbeing. In addition to first-person narratives of these activities, the authors provide resources for adaptation and/or usage in higher educational settings.

Enduring Lessons for Current Times from a Forgotten Froebelian Foot Soldier in Aotearoa-New Zealand: Miss Isabel Little (1876-1937)

Miss Isabel Little was a Scottish infant teacher who immigrated to New Zealand in 1912. She was described as a "Froebel trained Scot from Edinburgh" and known around Wellington education circles for her "modern methods". In contrast to known Froebelian pioneers, Miss Little's historical footprint is light but the few glimpses yield insights useful to consider in current times. Miss Little is described in this article as a forgotten Froebelian foot soldier who, like others were the mainstay of a kindergarten movement that transformed the early education of children. Individual and collective advocacy, as demonstrated by Miss Little a century ago, are evident in current times. The political and pedagogical context of early years education has changed in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) but there are still battles to be won. Coinciding with the consequences of COVID-19 in 2020 was the government's intended roll-out of "He Taonga te Tamaiti -- Early learning action plan 2019-2029," creating calls for a strategic rethink: to hasten rather than slow down its implementation. Connecting these stories, past and present, was accidental as they collided into the space of the author's life during a stern lockdown that mainly halted the virus at the border. More broadly they epitomize the stretch and potency of Froebelian principles across centuries and places.

The Confluence of AI and Blockchain in Tackling the COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 came with a sudden surge, harshly affecting the day-to-day lives of the entire world. Social and economic problems affected almost every nation, wreaking havoc on people's health, society, and economy everywhere. Although the pandemic is currently in control, the emergence of another pandemic is not unlikely. As technological breakthroughs accelerate, the possibility of controlling virological dangers becomes highly plausible. Better virus containment is attainable with the confluence of technologies such as Blockchain and AI. The newly growing fields and application cases of futuristic technologies for tackling upcoming pandemics are emerging. Several researchers are contributing to COVID-19 management with current and futuristic technologies, and such tools have room for additional improvement. This paper extensively highlights the work done in tackling COVID-19 using Blockchain and AI, illustrating the role of this collaborative approach in dealing with biological threats. We also discuss the prospects and obstacles in combining these technologies to tackle COVID-19-like situations. © 2022 IEEE.

Biopolitics in the Era of Coronavirus and Artificial Intelligence

The problem of the survival of humankind has acquired a new relevance. If recently the whole world was horrified by the prospects of a nuclear war, now the value priorities have shifted from the technogenic forms of struggle of some states and peoples against others to bio-political constants. Although the issues of viral infection, as well as the social consequences of the use of AI technologies concern all 8 billion earthlings, however, the biopolitics in the era of coronavirus and AI reflects all the same patterns: not solidarity in research and solving problems, but rivalry and absolutization of national interest. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Well-being Data Origination Using MROCs with Variable Quest: A Case Analysis of Gloom during COVID-19 Pandemic

Technologies using artificial intelligence (AI) have been implemented as services to solve various social problems. However, the contributions of AI to people's mentality and unknown/ unobserved events have not been extensively discussed. In this study, we focus on people's mental changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss the origin of data sources for well-being using marketing research online communities (MROCs) and variable quest (VQ). In the experiment, we selected 15 females aged between 20 and 40 who were interested in exploring how daily life has changed since the emergence of COVID-19 using MROCs. The analysis results by VQ revealed that the variable sets of the events differed with the situations, mental states, and attitudes, while not being featured in any of the MROC topics as keywords. The result suggests that ing the features of unobserved events as variable sets, can help us acquire information potentially contributing to unexplored data discovery for human well-being from texts not containing any information related to the data. © 2022 for this paper by its authors.

A concepção de movimentos cíclicos em tempos de crise pandêmica: implicações socioeconômicas da Covid-19 no Brasil

Os ciclos econômicos possuem uma dinâmica que se manifesta no formato de ondas. A inflexão da fase de auge econômico (boom) para a fase de recessão é o momento de crise. Menosprezada por muitos, pode-se afirmar que os efeitos da crise pandêmica decorrente da Covid-19 ganharam implicações típicas de uma grande crise global, sobretudo no Brasil. Neste cenário de pandemia, segundo a Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS), a economia global foi inserida numa grave crise socioeconômica. O objetivo fundamental do presente artigo é discutir a concepção conceitual de crise e de movimentos cíclicos em tempos de pandemia de Covid-19 e as principais implicações socioeconômicas no Brasil. Para alcançar esse objetivo, o artigo fará uso de metodologia de pesquisa do tipo exploratória e qualitativa. A principal conclusão é a de que a crise pandêmica trouxe para o Brasil uma série de problemas econômicos, tais como: desemprego e alta inflacionária, porém o fato mais grave foram os problemas de ordem social, principalmente o aumento significativo da pobreza e da desigualdade social. O uso do "auxílio emergencial", como política anticíclica e de apoio as estratificações sociais mais vulneráveis em tempos de pandemia, foi de extrema importância por ter criado um "colchão" de proteção social. Entretanto, tendo como base uma série de dados oficiais, pode-se afirmar que o governo Bolsonaro não conseguiu lograr êxito em sua empreitada para mitigar os impactos socioeconômicos da crise de Covid-19 no Brasil, muito disso por conta de uma retórica negacionista e de muita desinformação (fake news) em relação as vacinasAlternate :Economic cycles have a dynamic that manifests itself in the form of waves. The inflection from the economic boom phase to the recession phase is the moment of crisis. Disregarded by many, it can be said that the effects of the pandemic crisis resulting from Covid-19 have gained typical implications of a major global crisis, especially in Brazil. In this pandemic scenario, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the global economy has been inserted into a serious socioeconomic crisis. The fundamental objective of this article is to discuss the conceptual conception of crisis and cyclical movements in times of the Covid-19 pandemic and the main socioeconomic implications in Brazil. To achieve this objective, the article will use exploratory and qualitative research methodology. The main conclusion is that the pandemic crisis brought to Brazil a series of economic problems, such as unemployment and high inflation, but the most serious fact was the social problems, mainly the significant increase in poverty and social inequality. . The use of "auxílio emergencial", as a counter-cyclical policy and to support the most vulnerable social stratifications in times of a pandemic, was extremely important for having created a "mattress" of social protection. However, based on a series of official data, it can be said that the Bolsonaro government was unable to succeed in its endeavor to mitigate the socioeconomic impacts of the Covid-19 crisis in Brazil, much of it due to denialist rhetoric and a lot of disinformation (fake news) about vaccines.