ArticleThe American behavioral scientist2021
Piercing the Pandemic Social Bubble: Disability and Social Media Use About COVID-19.
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- Exploring online and in-person mental healthcare access and app use in a cohort of people living with disability: results from the 2019 and 2020 California Health Interview Survey.Internet interventions · 2026Article
- Living during COVID-19: qualitative analysis of Experts by Experience UK University Associates' socioeconomic inequalities, including readiness recommendations.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Individual differences in the long-term impact of the pandemic: moderators of COVID-related hardship, worry, and social support.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2024Article
- A call for inclusive public health communication to promote the health of neurodivergent communities during and post-COVID-19.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- Relationship difficulties and "technoference" during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of social and personal relationships · 2022Article
- Effect of COVID-19 on Internet Usage of People with Disabilities: A Secondary Data Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Effect of digital divide on people with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.Disability and health journal · 2022Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing stay-at-home orders caused tremendous restrictions in social contacts, which led to increasing use of the internet for daily tasks and social interactions. As prior research has established, people with disabilities (PWD) had already been using the internet for such purposes prior to the pandemic, especially for health-related content. Through a national survey administered during the first few weeks of the pandemic in the United States, we explore how people with and without disabilities used social media to exchange information and engage in activities about COVID-19. Findings reveal that PWD were more engaged with information about COVID-19 than those without disabilities, even when controlling for sociodemographics and internet experiences and skills. These differences are especially pronounced concerning more active engagement such as sharing information, interacting, and supporting others on social media. Although the content is about a health crisis in which PWD are disproportionately vulnerable, these effects largely remain when we enter controls for health status, belonging to high-risk groups for COVID-19, and personal experiences with COVID-19. Findings highlight the benefits of universal design, both for PWD specifically, and for society more broadly, as the general population ramps up use of tools long fought for and used by PWD.
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