Visual voice of the youth under lockdown protocol amidst Covid-19 pandemic: a photovoice

10.30207/AHLA.202312.0017

Neil Madulara Martin

photovoice ； youth ； Covid-19 protocol

The Proceeding of the 9th AHLA International Health Literacy Conference: Health Literacy and Social Resilience

2023（2023 / 12 / 01）

18 - 18

英文

Background: In the Philippines, the government issued a lockdown in the form of an enhanced community quarantine on 12 March, (Ocampo and Yamagishi, 2020). Interestingly, 188 countries have been on a pause, stopping religious meetings, sports events, and other social gatherings, while closing their borders and businesses including schools which affect 1.5 billion students. Objectives: To explore the experience of the youth under lockdown protocol amidst Covid-19 pandemic. Methods: Participatory action research through a photovoice approach was used and explored the experience of the eleven (11) mixed-gender youth participants under lockdown protocol amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The (11) mixed-gender youth participants were bonafide college students of a state university in Southern Philippines who willingly participated with strict university ethics protocol. Photographs using smartphones were taken within (2) weeks, selected, and submitted to a designated online submission bin with a reflection sheet. Photographs were collected, clustered, and analyzed in an iterative process. Results: (8) themes emerged: 1) Weekend breather 2) Education, job, selling online 3) Love of self, family, relatives, friends, and pets 4) Learning new experiences 5) Nature and nurture 6) Effect 7) Spiritual sphere 8) Sanitation at its peak. Conclusion: The youth amidst Covid-19 proved to have thrived and survived during the lockdown protocol as conveyed through their visual voice. Self-care pillars were subsumed among the emerging themes of the photovoice. Thus, path-forward measures and call to action are imperative for health literacy mechanisms for the youth.