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ArticleFrontiers in sociology2021

Cultural Sources of Strength and Resilience: A Case Study of Holistic Wellness Boxes for COVID-19 Response in Indigenous Communities.

Kevalin M W Aulandez, Melissa L Walls, Nicole M Weiss, Kelley J Sittner, Stefanie L Gillson, Elizabeth N Tennessen, Tara L Maudrie, Ailee M Leppi, Emma J Rothwell, Athena R Bolton-Steiner and 1 more

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Article in Frontiers in sociology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Kevalin M W AulandezJohns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Duluth, MN, United States.
Melissa L WallsJohns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Duluth, MN, United States.
Nicole M WeissJohns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Duluth, MN, United States.
Kelley J SittnerDepartment of Sociology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States.
Stefanie L GillsonDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States.
Elizabeth N TennessenJohns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Duluth, MN, United States.
Tara L MaudrieJohns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Duluth, MN, United States.
Ailee M LeppiJohns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Duluth, MN, United States.
Emma J RothwellJohns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Duluth, MN, United States.
Athena R Bolton-SteinerJohns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Duluth, MN, United States.
Miigis B GonzalezJohns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Duluth, MN, United States.
Johns Hopkins University · USOklahoma State University · USYale University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has had disproportionately severe impacts on Indigenous peoples in the United States compared to non-Indigenous populations. In addition to the threat of viral infection, COVID-19 poses increased risk for psychosocial stress that may widen already existing physical, mental, and behavioral health inequities experienced by Indigenous communities. In recognition of the impact of COVID-19 related psychosocial stressors on our tribal community partners, the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health Great Lakes Hub began sending holistic wellness boxes to our community partners in 11 tribal communities in the Midwestern United States and Canada in summer of 2020. Designed specifically to draw on culturally relevant sources of strength and resilience, these boxes contained a variety of items to support mental, emotional, cultural, and physical wellbeing. Feedback from recipients suggest that these wellness boxes provided a unique form of COVID-19 relief. Additional Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health offices have begun to adapt wellness boxes for the cultural context of their regions. This case study describes the conceptualization, creation, and contents of these wellness boxes and orients this intervention within a reflection on foundations of community-based participatory research, holistic relief, and drawing on cultural strengths in responding to COVID-19.

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community-based participatory researchcoronavirusCOVID-19holistic healthIndigenous peoplespandemicsrelief work

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PMID33869563
PMCPMC8022692
OpenAlexW3129728399

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