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

Autor:	Aulandez KMW; Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Duluth, MN, United States., Walls ML; Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Duluth, MN, United States., Weiss NM; Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Duluth, MN, United States., Sittner KJ; Department of Sociology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States., Gillson SL; Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States., Tennessen EN; Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Duluth, MN, United States., Maudrie TL; Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Duluth, MN, United States., Leppi AM; Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Duluth, MN, United States., Rothwell EJ; Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Duluth, MN, United States., Bolton-Steiner AR; Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Duluth, MN, United States., Gonzalez MB; Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Duluth, MN, United States.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Frontiers in sociology [Front Sociol] 2021 Feb 22; Vol. 6, pp. 612637. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Feb 22 (Print Publication: 2021).
DOI:	10.3389/fsoc.2021.612637
Abstrakt:	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. Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2021 Aulandez, Walls, Weiss, Sittner, Gillson, Tennessen, Maudrie, Leppi, Rothwell, Bolton-Steiner and Gonzalez.)
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