UMass Medical School conducting area coronavirus survey
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UMass Medical School in Worcester
UMass Medical School is conducting an online survey in Worcester and surrounding towns to assess how coronavirus has affected residents, including their health, finances and employment.
The goal of the survey is to help community leaders understand how residents have been affected and know how best to use resources to meet those needs, said Dr. Stephenie Lemon, a professor of population and quantitative health sciences at the medical school.
“Everyone has been affected somehow, in some way, shape or form by this pandemic, even if they didn’t have symptoms or weren’t diagnosed,” Lemon, the co-director of the UMass Worcester Prevention Research Center, said in a statement.
UMass Medical School, which announced the creation of the survey on Monday, created the survey in collaboration with the City of Worcester and the Central Massachusetts Regional Public Health Alliance. The Coalition for a Healthy Greater Worcester is coordinating outreach efforts.
The survey, which is available in multiple languages, will cover residents in Worcester, Grafton, Holden, Leicester, Millbury, Shrewsbury and West Boylston. Results will be anonymous, but researchers will collect a person's neighborhood in order to understand circumstances in specific neighborhoods.
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