Karsyn Hardy

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How does quarantine affect your mental wellbeing and what are we doing to
make it worse or better? This is a really important issue today especially with our
current pandemic. We need to know how quarantine may be affecting us and how we
can make quarantine better for us.

Boyd, Rhonda, and Julia A C. ​COVID-19: How Missing Milestones Is Impacting Teen
Mental Health​, 2 Nov. 2020,
https://policylab.chop.edu/blog/covid-19-how-missing-milestones-impacting-teen-mental
-health​ . 22 November 2020.
In the article COVID-19: How Missing Milestones Is Impacting Teen Mental
Health by Rhonda Boyd she talks about covid-19 and what things teenagers are
missing. Some things it talks about are prom, performances, sports, jobs, ect. They say
in the article that these events help create good relationships, teach responsibility, and
help teenagers learn how to socially interact with each other. She then goes into detail
about how missing these milestones can be harmful and cause things such as anxiety
and sadness. She then includes this statement “. Adolescent depression has been
associated with lowered educational, social and behavioral health functioning​ ​into
adulthood,” (Boyd). This is one of the points she made to show the effect and what is
linked to being quarantined and missing important parts of life. She then continues to
add information on how to help and comfort those going through quarantine. Some
things she recommends are giving space but still monitoring them, solving problems
together, helping them achieve their goals in other ways, ect.
This article addresses the view point mostly of a parent looking into a teenagers
life. This source helps the argument with bringing important information in about what
these teenagers are missing and how it affects them day to day. It also shows some
ways to provide help for those quarantining. The audience is parents with teenagers
who are going through quarantine. In this article there is a large press on pathos. This is
very credible to parents because it is relatable to their children and also provides
information on how to help these people. Ethos was also included by adding her
portfolio and all her past work. Such as working at a children's hospital and showing her
affiliation with CHOP.

Brooks, Samantha K, et al. “The Psychological Impact of Quarantine and How to

Reduce It: Rapid Review of the Evidence.” ​The Lancet​, Elsevier, 26 Feb. 2020,
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673620304608​ 22 November
2020.
This article goes over what should be required of quarantine such as known
amount of time, why you're being quarantined, and supplies. The article then goes over
how people felt during quarantine and how they feel after. Some things they felt where
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stress, stigma, sadness, depression, anxiety, caution, relief, excitement, and many
other things.
This article shows the viewpoint of people who have been in quarantine due to
an exposure to some type of illness. This fits in very well with the debate because it
goes over multiple viewpoints of many people and uses their information to collect data
about this topic. This article includes lots of ethos and logos which are both super
important when providing information about a topic. The audience is anyone who wants
information on what is happening with people who are quarantining. This is a credible
source; it was recently published and updated and was published by a credible site.

Overall these two sources are great in providing different perspectives and
helpful tips for those who are facing quarantine. This has given me perspective on
different peoples lives and how it may affect them and their situations. I will still need to
find more information on what people are doing during quarantine and how it is affecting
them.

Singh, N., Kumar, S., Rathore, P., Vig, S., Vallath, N., Mohan, A., & Bhatnagar, S.
(2020). Concerns and coping strategies of persons under institutional quarantine during
SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. ​Indian Journal of Palliative Care​, ​26​, 99.
In the article Concerns and coping strategies of persons under institutional
quarantine during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic the authors, Neha Singh, Sanjeev Kumar,
Puneet Rathore, Saurabh Vig1 , Nandini Vallath2 , Anant Mohan3 , Sushma Bhatnagar
give information about a study they did about this pandemic. They used a google form
to get data and used a first come first serve to get data. The authors also included
things such as coping mechanisms used by participants when they were put into
quarantine. Things such as family and friends, daily routines, praying/ religious activity,
and many other things.
This article shows the viewpoint of those suffering from covid-19 and quarantine.
This article mostly includes pathos and logos as rhetorical strategies. This article shows
pathos through real people and their true feelings on the subject. Logos is also heavily
displayed through percentages of people and what they chose on the questionnaire that
they received. This is a somewhat credible source. It was recently published, but the
survey itself isn’t the best based on answering bias and no reply bias. But the
information used was from credible sources.

Ng, L. L. (2020). Psychological states of COVID-19 quarantine. ​Journal of Primary

Health Care​, ​12​(2), 115–117. https://doi-org.libprox1.slcc.edu/10.1071/HC20030
In this article Psychological states of COVID-19 quarantine , the author Lillian
shows the psychological effects of this pandemic. She starts by explaining that the
psychological effects of quarantine are significant and can cause people to be in a
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Severe state of anxiety. Lillian then goes on to Give a definition for quarantine,
“quarantine is the separation and restriction of movement of people who have been
potentially exposed to infection " (Lillian). Some things that she claims people worry
about are insufficient supplies, boredom, risk of infection or infecting others, and
confusion, just to name a few. She also claims that health professionals are struggling
to provide care for patients due to stress. She then adds a statement of Hope, " humans
have capacity to adapt positively to adversity and change. ``She shows an example of
this by saying that we have stayed connected to each other despite our isolation and
quarantine. she includes statements by the World Health Organization, "minimize
watching, reading or listening to news that causes anxiety or distress and to seek
information from trusted sources "(World health organization).
This source is very good and shows that we can overcome this pandemic. This
article uses ethos to be effective. ethos is used in this article through credible sources
such as the World Health Organization and other trustworthy sources.