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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Mental Health
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1365657

Emerging priorities and concerns in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic: Qualitative and quantitative findings from a United States national survey

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Carolyn E. Schwartz Carolyn E. Schwartz 1,2*Katrina Borowiec Katrina Borowiec 3Ariel H. Waldman Ariel H. Waldman 1Tai A. Sutherland Tai A. Sutherland 4Briana Contreras Briana Contreras 5Elizabeth Abatan Elizabeth Abatan 5I-Chan Huang I-Chan Huang 6Gudrun Rohde Gudrun Rohde 7,8Bruce D. Rapkin Bruce D. Rapkin 9Richard L. Skolasky Richard L. Skolasky 5
  • 1 DeltaQuest Foundation (United States), Concord, United States
  • 2 School of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • 3 Lynch School of Education, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States
  • 4 Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
  • 5 School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
  • 6 St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
  • 7 Sørlandet Hospital, Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Norway
  • 8 University of Agder, Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Norway
  • 9 Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City, New York, United States

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    Ethics approval. The protocol was reviewed and approved by the WCG Independent Review Board (#2021164).All participants provided informed consent prior to beginning the survey.All participants agreed to their data being published in a journal article.Availability of data and material. The study data are confidential and thus not able to be shared./Competing interest. All authors declare that they have no potential conflicts of interest and report no disclosures. Further, none of the author institutions are related to government or other political actors, and there are no other interests or interest groups connected with these organizations. Funding. C.E. Schwartz, K. Borowiec, and A. Waldman received research support from DeltaQuest Foundation. IRB amendment costs were funded by contributions from IC Huang and the Faculty of

    Keywords: response shift, COVID-19, Quality of Life, meaning, priorities, Values, Health, interpersonal

    Received: 01 Feb 2024; Accepted: 16 May 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Schwartz, Borowiec, Waldman, Sutherland, Contreras, Abatan, Huang, Rohde, Rapkin and Skolasky. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Carolyn E. Schwartz, DeltaQuest Foundation (United States), Concord, United States

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