Zoom & WhatsApp Digital Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) Enhance Community Engaged Research with Women Immigrants from Mexico.

Pachely Mendivil-Aguayo¹, Megan Rivera¹, Daniela Armendariz¹, Daniel Perez Rodriguez², Camille Vasquez³, Lidia Regino², Maria Tellez², Jackie Perez³, Dulce Medina³, Virginia Sandoval⁴, Cristina Murray-Krezan⁵, Alejandro Aragon⁶, Reuben J Thomas⁷, Elaine L Bearer⁸, Janet Page-Reeves⁹

¹School of Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.

²Office for Community Health, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.

³Centro Sávila, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.

⁴One Hope Centro de Vida Health Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.

⁵University of Pittsburg, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

⁶Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.

⁷Department of Sociology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.

⁸Department of Pathology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.

⁹Department of Family & Community Medicine, Office for Community Health, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.

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Abstract

This article demonstrates how digital information and communication technologies (ICTs) (Zoom/WhatsApp) unexpectedly and counterintuitively proved to be valuable tools for community-engaged health research when, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, they were integrated into a research study testing a peer support group intervention with female immigrants from Mexico. Because of pandemic restri…

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