Citizen Science: Listening and talking about everyday risk communication. What does the experience of social isolation in the days of COVID-19 tell us?

  • Funded by Decanato de Pesquisa e Inovação - Universidade de Brasilia (DPI)
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Grant number: 1034499

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19
  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $1,032.13
  • Funder

    Decanato de Pesquisa e Inovação - Universidade de Brasilia (DPI)
  • Principal Investigator

    Muna Muhammad Odeh
  • Research Location

    Brazil
  • Lead Research Institution

    N/A
  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A
  • Research Category

    Policies for public health, disease control & community resilience

  • Research Subcategory

    Community engagement

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Adults (18 and older)

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

Citizen Science: Listening and talking about everyday risk communication. What does the experience of social isolation in the days of COVID-19 tell us? The proposal must contain the following documents: a) Identification of the proposer (linked to the University of Brasília) and team; Department of Collective Health - DSC Laboratory of Health Education, Information and Communication - Lab. ECoS Coordinator: Muna Muhammad Odeh b) Executive summary of the proposal; c) Analysis of the context; In December 2019 the world started talking about coronavirus, this fact was due to an outbreak that started in China, in Wuhan, and killed more than 3,000 people. Coronavirus is part of a family of viruses responsible for causing disease in animals or humans. In humans, it is known that several coronaviruses cause respiratory infections ranging from common colds to more serious diseases, such as the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome - MERS and the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - SARS, responsible for an epidemic in 2002. The new coronavirus, recently discovered, causes the disease called COVID-19. Covid-19, since December last year, has killed more than half a million people worldwide. In Brazil, the first cases appeared on February 26 this year and have already infected more than three thousand people and killed more than seventy people. Citizen science is a type of science based on the informed, conscious and voluntary participation of thousands of citizens who generate and analyze large amounts of data, share their knowledge and discuss and present the results. ECoS also identifies itself with this proposal and seeks to provide spaces that enhance the exchange of knowledge and knowledge, processes that generate social participation actions. d) Brief theoretical foundation (up to 150 words); Citizen Science has been disseminated as an allied form of data collection in real time with low cost and with the participation of 'lay people' in order to provide evidence in spaces and locations where phenomena occur with a focus on contexts related to the environment environment. https://nacoesunidas.org/onu-destaca-potencial-da-participacao-cidada-na-coleta-de-dados-cientificos/ Citizen Sciences is being proposed here as a tool that can be applied in a public health emergency situation, such as the current case of COVID19 in Brazil, which will help us, in times of confinement of society in general, including researchers who are disabled. (as) to arrive in the territory for data collection, to provide in real time the individual and collective impact of the isolation in order to allow us to design intervention and risk mitigation strategies with the UnB instances (COES, for example) ) as well as the GDF. To carry out citizen participation in this process, a virtual survey is underway with the objective of systematically collecting the repercussions happening in the daily life of people and communities in the Federal District. e) Objectives and goals; - The creation of a database line on the repercussions of social isolation resulting from COVID19 through the collection of data by people from the Unb universe, students at this time. - Qualify a citizen science in the context of reporting data of a public health nature and ways of dealing with day-to-day emergency situations. - Establish a longitudinal view of the reactions and ways of dealing with prolonged periods of isolation. - Provide a space for speech and listening, highlighting the issues that most concern people and new forms of sociability and their subsequent sharing in a public way and maintaining the anonymity of responses. f) Methodology (up to 100 words); Through the application of a self-applied questionnaire virtually containing questions about the sociodemographic profile and other semi-open ones in order to capture qualitative narratives and reports about the lived experience of social isolation and confinement. g) Expected Results; - Collect data in real time through people living in the context of social isolation during COVD19 in DF; - Promote a space to qualify the role of Citizen Science in knowledge about the management of society (individuals and groups) in the face of emergency public health situations.