Review Article
Newspaper Article-extracted Approaches to the Maintenance of Social Interactions in Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic
2023 Volume 12 Issue 2 Pages 89-98
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2023 Volume 12 Issue 2 Pages 89-98
Aim: The aim of this study was to clarify the newspaper article-extracted approaches to maintain social interactions in communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: Yomiuri Shimbun articles were searched for in the Yomiuri Database Service using the following keywords connected with “and”: “COVID-19,” “community,” and “social connection.” In total, 49 articles were adopted for analysis. Contexts regarding the maintenance of social interactions in communities were extracted and encoded, and these codes were categorized based on similarities.
Results: The following two types of approaches to maintain social interactions in communities during the COVID-19 pandemic were identified: group meetings, such as <socializing outdoors> and <socializing indoors while adopting infection control measures>, and non-group meetings, such as <online face-to-face interactions>, <exchanging messages>, <sending messages>, <interactions through objects>, and <displaying people’s art content to induce social interaction in communities>.
Discussion: It is important to incorporate group meetings, depending on the infection situation; to view the COVID-19 epidemic as an opportunity to build new interactions; and to develop community interactions for health promotion.
