It's not as good as the face-to-face contact

A sociomaterialist analysis of the use of virtual care among Canadian gay, bisexual and queer men during the Covid-19 pandemic

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ID2250270
AutoresEmerich Daroya (0000-0003-2024-4240, Dalla Lana School of Public Health University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada), Cornel Grey (0000-0002-8721-9536, Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Western University London Ontario Canada), Ben Klassen (0000-0002-8203-724X, Community‐Based Research Centre Vancouver British Columbia Canada), David Lessard (0000-0002-1151-3763, Centre for Health Outcome Research Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre Montreal Quebec Canada), Shayna Skakoon-Sparling (0000-0002-5021-6593, Toronto Metropolitan University), Shayna Skakoon‐Sparling (Department of Psychology Toronto Metropolitan University Toronto Ontario Canada), Amaya Perez-Brumer (0000-0003-2441-4358, Public Health Ontario), Amaya Perez‐Brumer (Dalla Lana School of Public Health University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada), B D Adam (0000-0002-8836-4153, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology University of Windsor Windsor Ontario Canada), Joseph Cox (0000-0002-7041-1556, Service Prévention et contrôle des maladies infectieuses Direction régionale de santé publique Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux du Centre‐Sud‐de‐l’Île‐de‐Montréal Montreal Quebec Canada), Nathan Lachowsky (0000-0002-6336-8780, School of Public Health and Social Policy University of Victoria Victoria British Columbia Canada), Trevor Hart (0000-0001-5107-7452, Dalla Lana School of Public Health University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada), Jessie Gervais (Department of Psychology Toronto Metropolitan University Toronto Ontario Canada), Darrell H S Tan (0000-0002-3069-2875, Dalla Lana School of Public Health University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada), Daphne Grace (0000-0002-9032-3959, Dalla Lana School of Public Health University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen46
Número1
Páginas19-38
Fecha de publicación2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9566.13686
PMID37323054
OpenAlexW4380872669
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas55

The COVID-19 pandemic led to the widespread adoption of virtual care-the use of communication technologies to receive health care at home. We explored the differential impacts of the rapid transition to virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic on health-care access and delivery for gay, bisexual and queer men (GBQM), a population that disproportionately experiences sexual and mental health disparities in Canada. Adopting a sociomaterial theoretical perspective, we analysed 93 semi-structured interviews with GBQM (n = 93) in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, Canada, conducted between November 2020 and February 2021 (n = 42) and June-October 2021 (n = 51). We focused on explicating how the dynamic relations of humans and non-humans in everyday virtual care practices have opened or foreclosed different care capacities for GBQM. Our analysis revealed that the rapid expansion and implementation of virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic enacted disruptions and challenges while providing benefits to health-care access among some GBQM. Further, virtual care required participants to change their sociomaterial practices to receive health care effectively, including learning new ways of communicating with providers. Our sociomaterial analysis provides a framework that helps identify what works and what needs to be improved when delivering virtual care to meet the health needs of GBQM and other diverse populations

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Face (sociological concept · Health care · Pandemic · Political science · Population · Public relations · Queer · Social science · Sociology · Telehealth · Telemedicine · Gender Studies · Medicine · Mobile Health and mHealth Applications · Nursing · Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare · Psychology · Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation