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  • Public Health
  • Disaster Research
  • Sociology

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  • The COVID-19 pandemic presented unprecedented challenges for data collection due to widespread uncertainty and precarity.
  • Research involving young adults faced specific hurdles in accessing participants and ensuring safety during the initial pandemic phase.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify challenges and opportunities in disaster data collection.
  • To evaluate journaling techniques as a tool for collecting data from young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Main Methods:

  • An exploratory study utilizing journaling as a primary data collection instrument.
  • Analysis of lessons learned from journaling in a public health crisis context.

Main Results:

  • Journaling facilitated respondent access despite limited resources and time constraints.
  • The technique ensured participant and researcher safety by minimizing human interaction.
  • Journaling allowed for rapid response and flexibility in research design during the crisis.

Conclusions:

  • Journaling techniques offer a viable, efficient, and effective approach to data collection in disaster settings.
  • This method is adaptable for diverse disaster scenarios, including pandemics and extreme climate events.