Effects of the COVID-19 Health Emergency on Biopsychosocial Health

University of New Mexico (UNM)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Activities; Life Style; Mental Health Issue

Treatments: Other: WHOQOL-BREF survey

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04409535

20-266

Details and patient eligibility

About

There is a critical need to determine the impact of the COVID-19 emergency on the comprehensive well-being of people as they are living through the emergency and sequelae of the emergency period. The research team is requesting National Institutes of Health funding with the goal to investigate rural vs. urban living people's response to the crisis and its impact using mixed methods research.

Full description

The state of New Mexico and the entire nation have entered an unprecedented health emergency created by the COVID-19 virus; affecting the lives of all people, many of whom were significantly unprepared for the disruptions the emergency created in daily life. Rural residents are at increased risk from effects of the emergency due to numerous disadvantages as compared to urban living people (i.e. critical care access, food insecurity, social isolation). Very little is known about how people are living through a national emergency event affecting all people of the nation. Therefore, a significant gap in knowledge exists: 1. How are rural-living vs. urban-living people responding physically and mentally to the crisis? 2. What strategies of resilience are employed by people living in rural vs. urban counties? 3. What are perceptions of access to critical supplies and services in urban vs. rural counties; 4. How is the availability and use of technology used for news, reliable information, and communication? and 5. Use of time: what alterations in daily life self-care, care of others, commerce, and valued routines in urban vs. rural counties are occurring?

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Urban and rural living residents of New Mexico, any gender, gender identity, any ethnic origin, any health status (healthy, chronic, disabled), and adult age from 18-85

Exclusion criteria

• Non-New Mexico residents, adults unable to give consent due to cognition or incarceration status

Trial design

150 participants in 2 patient groups

Rural Living Community Member

Description:

Adult residents of a New Mexico rural county (as federally designated)

Treatment:

Other: WHOQOL-BREF survey

Urban/Suburban Living Community Member

Description:

Comparison group: adult resident of a New Mexico urban/suburban city or town (as federally designated)

Treatment:

Other: WHOQOL-BREF survey