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Youth and the COVID-19 crisis: Lessons learned from a human rights-based prevention programme for youths in São Paulo, Brazil.
Paiva, Vera; Garcia, Marcos R V; França-Jr, Ivan; da Silva, Cristiane Gonçalves; Galeão-Silva, L G; Simões, Júlio Assis; Ayres, José Ricardo.
  • Paiva V; Social Psychology, University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo-SP, Brazil.
  • Garcia MRV; Human Sciences and Education, Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Sorocaba, Brazil.
  • França-Jr I; School of Public Health, University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil.
  • da Silva CG; Public Policies and Public Health, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Santos, Brazil.
  • Galeão-Silva LG; Social Psychology, University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo-SP, Brazil.
  • Simões JA; Antropology, University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Ayres JR; Medical School, University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil.
Glob Public Health ; 16(8-9): 1454-1467, 2021.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1364689
ABSTRACT
Youths living in crowded impoverished urban areas face higher risk of infection by SARS-CoV-2. This article presents lessons learned from a preventive intervention project intersected by the COVID-19 crisis that moved from a mix-methods study design to online ethnography. The 'home-officed' research team e-witnessed high-school students' daily lives and collaborated in youths' and community-based organisations' responses in the territories where they study and live. Psychosocial distress increased, also driven by the disastrous governmental response to the health and economic crises. There was growing anxiety about meeting friends and dating, with structural limits for sustaining the recommended social distancing, which added to gender/sexuality-based violence. Simultaneously, we observed students becoming relevant actors through co-producing preventive practices, surpassing risk-group notions and combining SARS-CoV-2 prevention with sexuality, gender, racism and mental-health issues. They managed internet-mediated applications to promote critical thinking and collective actions aimed at health promotion among their peers, from their homes. Freire's concept of 'untested-feasibility' fostered researchers', students' and community leaders' imaginations in the face of this unprecedented crisis, thereby enhancing social responses to the epidemic to become rights-based comprehensive dialogical preventive activities. This ongoing intervention-research stresses how prevention sciences can go beyond reduction of this pandemic to a viral event.
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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Pandemics / COVID-19 / Human Rights Type of study: Observational study / Prognostic study / Qualitative research Limits: Adolescent / Humans Country/Region as subject: South America / Brazil Language: English Journal: Glob Public Health Journal subject: Public Health Year: 2021 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: 17441692.2021.1916055

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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Pandemics / COVID-19 / Human Rights Type of study: Observational study / Prognostic study / Qualitative research Limits: Adolescent / Humans Country/Region as subject: South America / Brazil Language: English Journal: Glob Public Health Journal subject: Public Health Year: 2021 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: 17441692.2021.1916055