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3. Illuminating and mitigating the evolving impacts of COVID-19 on ethnocultural communities: a participatory action mixed-methods study

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Campbell-Scherer, Denise, Chiu, Yvonne, Ofosu, Nicole Naadu, Luig, Thea, Hunter, Karen Heather, Jabbour, Badi, Farooq, Sauleha, Mahdi, Ali, Gayawira, Aline, Awasis, Fransiska, Olokude, Funke, Goa, Hannah, Syed, Hina, Sillito, Judy, Yip, Lydia, Belle, Lyn, Akot, Mawien, Nutter, Monique, Farhat, Nadia, Wang, Yan, Jalal, Niga, Khalif, Saida, Chapagain, Shiva, Fernandez, Stephanie, Azarcon, Susan, and Hama, Zhewar

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Epidemics -- Social aspects -- Demographic aspects, Minorities -- Health aspects -- Social aspects, Ethnic groups -- Health aspects -- Social aspects, Health
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BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated disparities in poverty and illness for people in vulnerable circumstances in ethnocultural communities. We sought to understand the evolving impacts of COVID-19 on ethnocultural communities to inform intersectoral advocacy and community action. METHODS: The Illuminate Project used participatory action research, with cultural health brokers as peer researchers, from Sept. 21 to Dec. 31, 2020, in Edmonton, Alberta. Twenty-one peer researchers collected narratives from members of ethnocultural communities and self-interpreted them as they entered the narratives into the SenseMaker platform, a mixed-method data collection tool. The entire research team analyzed real-time, aggregate, quantitative and qualitative data to identify emerging thematic domains, then visualized these domains with social network analysis. RESULTS: Brokers serving diverse communities collected 773 narratives. Identified domains illuminate the evolving and entangled impacts of COVID-19 including the following: COVID-19 prevention and management; care of acute, chronic and serious illnesses other than COVID-19; maternal care; mental health and triggers of past trauma; financial insecurity; impact on children and youth and seniors; and legal concerns. We identified that community social capital and cultural brokering are key assets that facilitate access to formal health and social system supports. INTERPRETATION: The Illuminate Project has illustrated the entangled, systemic issues that result in poor health among vulnerable members of ethnocultural communities, and the exacerbating effects of COVID-19, which also increased barriers to mitigation. Cultural brokering and community social capital are key supports for people during the COVID-19 pandemic. These findings can inform policy to reduce harm and support community resiliency., Mahatma Gandhi observed that 'the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.' Ethnocultural communities, defined by their unique shared characteristics (e.g., [...]

Published
2021
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5. Role of cultural brokering in advancing holistic primary care for diabetes and obesity: a participatory qualitative study

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Luig, Thea, primary, Ofosu, Nicole N, additional, Chiu, Yvonne, additional, Wang, Nancy, additional, Omar, Nasreen, additional, Yip, Lydia, additional, Aleba, Sarah, additional, Maragang, Kiki, additional, Ali, Mulki, additional, Dormitorio, Irene, additional, Lee, Karen K, additional, Yeung, Roseanne O, additional, and Campbell-Scherer, Denise, additional

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2023
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18. MOESM4 of Using Concept Maps to compare obesity knowledge between policy makers and primary care researchers in Canada

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Sturgiss, Elizabeth, Luig, Thea, Campbell-Scherer, Denise, Lewanczuk, Richard, and Green, Lee

Abstract

Additional file 4: Map 4. Concept Map from a policy maker/clinician. Bright pink—weight bias and stigma; red—policy; olive green—medical management; bright green—genetics; light pink—childhood events; brown—education; blue—social determinants of health.

Published
2019
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22. Transforming Health Experience and Action through Shifting the Narrative on Obesity in Primary Care Encounters.

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Luig, Thea, Keenan, Louanne, and Campbell-Scherer, Denise L.

Subjects
*PREVENTION of obesity, *COMMUNICATION, *DECISION making, *EMOTIONS, *EXPERIENCE, *HEALTH behavior, *INTERVIEWING, *PHYSICIAN-patient relations, *PRIMARY health care, *REFLECTION (Philosophy), *RESEARCH funding, *TRUST, *VIDEO recording, *QUALITATIVE research, *PATIENT-centered care, *PATIENTS' attitudes, *PHYSICIANS' attitudes, WRITING
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We sought to understand the impact of primary care conversations about obesity on people's everyday life health experience and practices. Using a dialogic narrative perspective, we examined key moments in three very different clinical encounters, the patients' journals, and follow-up interviews over several weeks. We trace how people living with obesity negotiate narrative alternatives that are offered during clinical dialogue to transform their own narrative and experience of obesity and self. Findings provide pragmatic insights into how providers can play a significant role in shifting narratives about obesity and self and how such co-constructed narratives translate into change and tangible health outcomes in people's lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2020
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38. Ontological Security, Movement, and Well-being: Teetł’it Gwich’in Experiences of Life Transformations

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Luig,Thea

Subjects
Aboriginal, Phenomenology, Well-being, Movements, Volunteerism, Ontological security
Abstract

Abstract: Based on ethnographic field research in a northern Aboriginal community, this thesis explores Teetł’it Gwich’in experiences of personal transformations from suffering to well-being. Literature on Aboriginal health largely approaches social suffering as trans-generational trauma, and strength in terms of resiliency. The process of how individuals within their communities overcome the effects of adversity and restore a sense of well-being, however, is not well understood. This thesis represents a critical exploration of the concept of ontological security, which denotes a sense of existential integrity that allows people to act in the face of adversity. The material presented was collected during a twelve-months stay in the community of Teetł’it Zheh, or Fort McPherson, in the Northwest Territories. As my primary methodological approach, I followed local Gwich’in pedagogy in conjunction with phenomenology, focusing on learning through experience and collaborative research. Central to my discussion is the story of life transformation of a Teetł’it Gwich’in Elder and her subsequent work in a community-based volunteer-run alcohol-counseling program. Her and others’ narratives, as well as their lived healing practices, directed my attention to movement and mobility as characteristic of experiences of renewal and ontological security. Two aspects emerged as contemporary reflections of positive life transformations in the community: volunteering and working on the land. The importance of contemporary volunteerism is rooted not only in a strategic discourse that safeguards local practices against state intervention and bureaucracy, but it also offers people a space to engage in movement and purposeful work and to restore a sense of ontological security within their community. While personal engagement with the land is varied, common to many people’s experience is an increased sense of agency and well-being while working and travelling on the land. As kinesthetic experiences are foundational for the formation of a sense of a continuous and competent self within a field of relations, I argue that bodily practices such as walking, volunteering, travelling, and working are pivotal to inducing a shift in experience from existential threat to ontological security and are characteristic of personal experiences of renewal and healing.

Published
2015

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