Adaptations of young people in monetary-poor households for surviving and recovering from COVID-19 and associated lockdowns

虽然与年长人群相比，全球年轻人受新冠肺炎健康结果的影响较小，但他们受到教育(上学和‘在线学习’)和家庭/个人生活(例如获得食物、玩耍和休闲的能力以及整体生活安排)中断的影响不成比例。这些中断，特别是在货币匮乏的家庭中，与国家政府方面的重大失误有关，即未能设计出降低这些政策的有害成本的新冠肺炎预防和遏制政策(Gourinchas，2020)。鉴于此，新冠肺炎对这一年龄段的心理社会后果可能更为严重(Power等人，2020年)。因此，迫切需要了解年轻人在大流行病期间是如何适应的，并评估这种适应过程的更广泛影响。为此，我们采取了一种相互联系的方法，将重点放在食物、教育和娱乐/休闲上，同时更广泛地了解生活环境(当地)和家庭/个人环境(家庭构成和家庭/个人生活)。这个项目试图使用行动研究方法来共同创造关于这种适应的知识，并与年轻人、他们所在的社区以及关注这一年龄段的非政府机构和非营利组织一起产生更广泛的建议。通过共同创造知识，我们的目标是使我们的数据收集工作与这些组织的即时知识需求保持一致，以支持年轻人采用的适应措施，以帮助他们应对和从新冠肺炎以及相关政策反应中恢复过来。我们的方法还可以在那些受政策影响的人(年轻人)和那些起草和执行政策的人(组织)之间建立一座桥梁。为此，我们重点研究了三个地区的案例研究：南非中部的Mangaung和Moqhaka，英国的西米德兰兹郡和巴西的S圣保罗州。

While young people globally have been less impacted by COVID-19 health outcomes than have older age groups, they have been disproportionately affected with disruptions to both their education (access to school and 'online learning') and home/personal life (e.g. access to food, ability to play and have leisure, and overall living arrangements). Those disruptions, particularly in monetary-poor households, are linked to major failures on the part of the national governments to design COVID-19 prevention and containment policies that mitigated the harmful cost of these policies (Gourinchas, 2020). Given this, the psychosocial consequences of COVID-19 are likely to be more severe for this age group (Power et al., 2020). There is therefore a crucial need to understand how young people have adapted during the pandemic and to assess the wider impact of such processes of adaptations. To do so, we adopt a nexus approach, focusing on food, education, and play/leisure embedded within a wider understanding of the living settings (local places) and home/personal contexts (household composition and home/personal life).This project seeks to use an action research methodology to co-create this knowledge about such adaptations and generate wider recommendations, with young people, and the communities in which they live, and non-government bodies and non-profit organisations that focus on this age group. By co-creating knowledge, we aim to align our data collection efforts with these organisations' immediate knowledge needs to support the adaptations employed by young people to help them cope and recover from COVID-19 and associated policy responses. Our approach also allows to create a bridge between those affected by policy (young people) and those drafting and implementing policy (organisations). To do so, we focus on case studies in three locations: Mangaung and Moqhaka in Central South Africa, West Midlands in the UK, and São Paulo state in Brazil.