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      Pandemic Acceptance and Commitment to Empowerment Response (PACER) Training: Protocol for the Development and Rapid-Response Deployment

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          Abstract

          Background

          During a global pandemic, it is critical to rapidly deploy a psychological intervention to support the mental health and resilience of highly affected individuals and communities.

          Objective

          This is the rationale behind the development and implementation of the Pandemic Acceptance and Commitment to Empowerment Response (PACER) Training, an online, blended, skills building intervention to increase the resilience and well-being of participants while promoting their individual and collective empowerment and capacity building.

          Methods

          Based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and social justice–based group empowerment psychoeducation (GEP), we developed the Acceptance and Commitment to Empowerment (ACE) model to enhance psychological resilience and collective empowerment. The PACER program consists of 6 online, interactive, self-guided modules complemented by 6 weekly, 90-minute, videoconference, facilitator-led, group sessions.

          Results

          As of August 2021, a total of 325 participants had enrolled in the PACER program. Participants include frontline health care providers and Chinese-Canadian community members.

          Conclusions

          The PACER program is an innovative intervention program with the potential for increasing resilience and empowerment while reducing mental distress during the pandemic.

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                Contributors
                Journal
                JMIR Res Protoc
                JMIR Res Protoc
                ResProt
                JMIR Research Protocols
                JMIR Publications (Toronto, Canada )
                1929-0748
                December 2021
                6 December 2021
                6 December 2021
                : 10
                : 12
                : e33495
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Department of Psychiatry Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto Toronto, ON Canada
                [2 ] Toronto Western Hospital University Health Network Toronto, ON Canada
                [3 ] Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing Ryerson University Toronto, ON Canada
                [4 ] Regent Park Community Health Centre Toronto, ON Canada
                Author notes
                Corresponding Author: Kenneth Fung ken.fung@ 123456uhn.ca
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                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4441-8420
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2213-1346
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7950-7335
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4230-0365
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6407-4629
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8262-7725
                Article
                v10i12e33495
                10.2196/33495
                8651179
                34726602
                45c60757-b5d4-40c9-8ef9-1bb73427a009
                ©Kenneth Fung, Jenny JW Liu, Mandana Vahabi, Alan Tai-Wai Li, Mateusz Zurowski, Josephine Pui-Hing Wong. Originally published in JMIR Research Protocols (https://www.researchprotocols.org), 06.12.2021.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Research Protocols, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://www.researchprotocols.org, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.

                History
                : 9 September 2021
                : 5 October 2021
                : 8 October 2021
                : 8 October 2021
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                peer-reviewed by B Sindelar; externally peer-reviewed by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research;

                covid,covid-19,coronavirus,pandemic,resilience,acceptance commitment therapy,group empowerment

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