Collection Program Research Articles

Added value of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) after an acute stroke and early predictors of 90 days PROMs

IntroductionValue-based health care represents a patient-centered approach by valuing Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs). Our aim was to describe the additional value of PROMs after an acute stroke over conventional outcome measures and to identify early predictors of poor PROMs.MethodsAcute stroke patients discharged from a tertiary care hospital followed by a web/phone-based PROMs collection program in the post hospitalization phase. Main PROMs involve anxiety and depression (HADS) (each defined by HADS ≥ 10) and global physical (PHY-) and mental (M-) health (PROMIS-10). PROMIS cut-off raw values of normality were: PHY-PROMIS ≥ 13 and M-PROMIS ≥ 11. An overall health status (OHS) from 0 to 100 was also determined. PROMs related to the different modified Rankin Scale (mRS) grades were defined. Early predictors of PROMs were evaluated.ResultsWe included 1321 stroke patients, mean age 75 (± 8.6) and 55.7% male; 77.7% returned home. Despite a favorable mRS at 3 months (< 3), a relevant rate of patients considered without symptoms or with mild disability showed unfavorable results in the measured PROMs (8% unfavorable OHS, 15% HAD-depression, 12.1% HAD-anxiety, 28.7% unfavorable M-PROMIS and 33.1% unfavorable PHY-PROMIS results). Along follow-up, only PHY-PROMIS and OHS showed significant improvement (p < 0.01 and 0.03, respectively). The multivariate analysis including discharge variables showed that female sex, higher discharge mRS and discharge to socio-rehabilitation-center (SRC) were independent predictors of unfavorable results in PROMs (p < 0.01). When adding 7 days PROMs results, they emerged as the strongest predictors of 3 months PROMs.ConclusionsA high proportion of stroke patients show unfavorable results in PROMs at 3 months, even those with favorable mRS, and most results obtained by PROMs during follow-up continued to indicate alterations. Female sex, mRS and discharge to SRC predicted unfavorable results in PROMs, but the strongest predictors of 3 months PROMs were the results of the 7 days PROMs.

Citizen Security in South America: A Review

Concerns about the global proliferation of small arms and light weapons (SALW) and armed violence have increased exponentially since the end of the Cold War. Developing and post-conflict countries have found it particularly difficult to stem the proliferation and misuse of SALW as they attempt to (re)build government institutions, in particular security forces. Latin America is one of the regions of the world most affected by armed violence. Voluntary weapons collection programmes (VWCP) are one intervention that has been implemented repeatedly in developed and developing countries in order to reduce proliferation and violence with mixed results and limited independent evaluation. This thesis begins with an examination of the weapons-specific, intervening and structural factors of crime and insecurity in Latin America followed by an exploration of different security concepts and frameworks relevant to VWCP, in particular the concept of citizen security. It then proposes a new VWCP Impact Assessment Framework that builds upon previous findings on impact in regards to traditional crime and violence. The framework goes further to integrate the interactions of VWCP with security sector reform and social capital. The examination of the security sector emphasises elements of police reform in Latin America. The framework then looks at three types of social capital relevant to institutions and communities. The framework is then tested and applied to eight country cases studies, two from empirical field research in order to test conventional notions and generate new findings.

The effects of IMF loan conditions on poverty in the developing world

Although the International Monetary Fund (IMF) claims that poverty reduction is one of its objectives, some studies show that IMF borrower countries experience higher rates of poverty. This paper investigates the effects of IMF loan conditions on poverty. Using a sample of 81 developing countries from 1986 to 2016, we find that IMF loan arrangements containing structural reforms contribute to more people getting trapped in the poverty cycle, as the reforms involve deep and comprehensive changes that tend to raise unemployment, lower government revenue, increase costs of basic services, and restructure tax collection, pensions, and social security programmes. Conversely, we observe that loan arrangements promoting stabilisation reforms have less impact on the poor because borrower states hold more discretion over their macroeconomic targets. Further, we disaggregate structural reforms to identify the particular policies that increase poverty. Our findings are robust to different specifications and indicate how IMF loan arrangements affect poverty in the developing world.Supplementary InformationThe online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1057/s41268-022-00263-1.

Bullying in Physical Education: Awareness of Physical Education Teachers

Abstract This study investigates how physical education (PE) teachers make sense of peer bullying, which types of behaviors they associate with peer bullying, their opinions about these behaviors, and methods for preventing bullying. The study group consisted of 18 PE teachers. The interview technique was used as a qualitative research method in the study. The data obtained after one-on-one interviews were analyzed through content analysis. According to the data obtained, PE teachers are the most important variable in the decrease or increase of peer bullying in classes. However, PE classes provide a suitable environment for the emergence of peer bullying. Additionally, bullying caused by the individual characteristics of students and environmental reasons can increase in schools, and there are generally no collective intervention programs within schools to prevent it. According to the teachers’ opinions, some of the important results are that students who are exposed to bullying experience the same fear every week in PE lessons, and although it is known that the majority of them do not want to participate in the activity in order to avoid being bullied, no solution can be found.

Narrative-Based Disaster Learning Programmes Simultaneously Improve People’s Disaster Awareness Scores, Willingness to Pay and Settlement Preferences

Few studies currently examine the effect of different disaster informational programmes because conducting such intervention studies is challenging. By providing two types of online disaster learning programmes, this intervention study measured changes made to three different perspectives: (1) disaster preventive awareness scores, (2) willingness to pay for disaster information (WTP), and (3) settlement preferences (preferences for post-disaster recovery goals). The participants engaged with one of two different types of 45-min learning programmes—one created as a narrative-based disaster learning programme (N = 218) and the other presented as a collective information disaster learning programme (N = 201). Consequently, both disaster preparedness scores and WTP increased statistically after both styles of disaster preparedness programmes. Furthermore, the increase generated by the narrative programme was greater (2.2 times higher for WTP value and 1.72 times higher in WTP value-increased probability). In their preprogramme answer, people who selected safety and nature conservation for post-disaster recovery goals improved their awareness scores. Despite both programmes having the same theme and length, only the narrative learning programme had a beneficial—improvement odds ratio for all three perspectives. Thus, the narrative-based disaster learning (vicarious) experience simultaneously improved people’s disaster awareness scores, willingness to pay for disaster information, and settlement preferences for disaster prevention.

Collective Program Social Justice Identity and Perceived Norms on Promoting Student Advocacy

A growing body of research suggests that graduate psychology training programs with a stronger collective social justice identity are likely to provide more support for students’ advocacy engagements than those with discrepant views among members. We conducted response surface analyses ( N = 178 PhD students; across 16 counseling psychology programs) to examine whether the degree of congruence and discrepancy in social justice attitudes and perceptions of training program norms (perceived social justice norms among students and faculty) between the individual student and other students in their program would be associated with students’ social justice advocacy intentions and behaviors. Higher congruence in attitudes and perceived norms (among students and faculty) were significantly associated with advocacy intentions. For advocacy behaviors, only congruently higher perceptions of faculty were significantly associated. Discrepant attitudes and perceived norms were not significantly related to students’ advocacy intentions and behaviors. Recommendations for training and research are discussed.

Comparison of drone and vessel-based collection of microbiological water samples in marine environments

Many water quality metrics cannot be measured in situ and require collection of a physical sample for laboratory analysis. This includes microbiological samples for detection of fecal coliform bacteria in marine and freshwater systems which are a critical component of food safety programs for human consumption of bivalve shellfish worldwide. Water sample collection programs are typically vessel-based which can be time and resource intensive. In Canada, the Canadian Shellfish Sanitation Program aims to avoid consumption of contaminated molluscan bivalves by monitoring fecal coliform bacteria through vessel-based water sample collection. Uncrewed aerial vehicles or drones are becoming more commonly used for water sample collection given their relatively low cost but are rarely used to support microbiological analyses. A prerequisite for the acceptance of a new collection method for a regulatory program is to determine if the method of sample collection affects results. To assess this potential, we designed, developed, and tested a sampling device attached to the underside of a drone to collect water samples for bacteriological analysis. Drone and vessel-based samples were collected in the same location, at the same 20-cm depth, within a minute apart, at ten different geographic locations in coastal Nova Scotia waters to compare fecal coliform counts. Bacterial count estimates obtained from drone-collected samples were not significantly different than estimates obtained from vessel-collected samples (p < 0.5). Results from this study suggest novel water sampling techniques using drones could supplement or replace traditional vessel-based sampling methods.

Discards of cod (Gadus morhua) in the Norwegian coastal fisheries: improving past and future estimates

Abstract Discarding can be an unknown source of biases and uncertainties in stock assessments. Discarding patterns and quantities vary so a routine methodology for estimating discards is important to give a better picture of total catches, and potentially mortality, in fisheries. Using data from the Norwegian Reference Fleet between 2012 and 2018, this study presents a revised methodology for estimating discards of cod (Gadus morhua) in the Norwegian coastal gillnet fisheries, which accounts for variations in discarding between vessels and uncertainties in the conversion of numbers to weight discarded. The estimated average discard rate of cod (weight of cod discarded as percentage of total weight caught) is 0.55% (95% confidence interval: 0.45–0.70%), although discard rates in southern areas were an order of magnitude higher than in northern areas. We also present an exploratory analysis of the drivers behind discarding using a random forest regression model. Spatial variations and fishing intensity were identified as the most important drivers of discarding. Results from this study suggest ways in which self-sampled data can be used to estimate discards in Norwegian coastal fisheries, and where the accuracy of future estimates can be improved when a higher resolution data collection programme is established.

How Social Infrastructures of Care and Solidarity Cope with the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Reflection from Community Networks of the Baan Mankong Programme in Thailand

Low-income citizens in urban areas have been highly vulnerable to the COVID-19 outbreak around the world. The pandemic has revealed and deepened the unequal distribution of resources, as well as the inability of national, state and local governments to respond to such crises. In Thailand, the Community Organizations Development Institute (CODI) supported the community networks associated with their collective housing credit programme, Baan Mankong. CODI not only put a 3-month moratorium on Baan Mankong, but also released an urgent COVID-19 relief fund of $4.5 million, for communities under the same programme, nationwide. There were 228 initiatives proposed by the urban poor networks, which received approximately $2.2 million, implemented between April and September 2020. Community kitchens, community-run shops, community gardens, income-generation activities, and online and offline community markets are among the activities—along with diverse mechanisms to manage them collectively—devised by the community groups to respond to the socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic. Drawing on information from online surveys, focus group discussions and case studies, this article highlights the mechanisms used and outcomes achieved by these community initiatives. More importantly, the article points at how the underlying social infrastructures of care and solidarity embedded in the community networks actively participating in Baan Mankong were crucial to cope with COVID-19 and constitute the basis for long-term rehabilitation and further development of low-income communities in Thailand.

Introduction to Odyssey: real-world rare disease data collection program for patients with long-chain fatty acid oxidation disorders in the US

Introduction to Odyssey: real-world rare disease data collection program for patients with long-chain fatty acid oxidation disorders in the US

Predictive models of phosphorus concentration and load in stormwater runoff from small urban residential watersheds in fall season

Urban street trees are a key part of public green infrastructure in many cities, however, leaf litter on streets is a critical biogenic source of phosphorus (P) in urban stormwater runoff during Fall. This study identified mass of street leaf litter (Mleaf) and antecedent dry days (ADD) as the top two explanatory parameters that have significant predictive power of event end-of-pipe P concentrations through multiple linear regression (MLR) analysis. Mleaf and volume of runoff (Vol) were the top two key explanatory parameters of event end-of-pipe P loads. Two-predictor MLR models were developed with these explanatory parameters using a 40-storm dataset derived from six small urban residential watersheds in Wisconsin, USA, and evaluated using storms specific to each study basin. The MLR model validation results indicated sensitivity to storm composition in the datasets. Our analysis shows selected parameters can be used by environmental managers to facilitate end-of-pipe P prediction in urban areas. This information can be used to reduce the amount of P in stormwater runoff by adjusting the timing and frequency of municipal leaf collection and street cleaning programs in urban areas.

Penegakan Hukum yang Dilakukan Direktorat Lalu Lintas Polda Bali terhadap Pelanggaran Kendaraan Roda Tiga Angkutan Sampah Melebihi Daya Beban Angkut di Kota Denpasar

The Denpasar city government has created a garbage collection program that is managed by the Banjar. The waste produced in 2021 is around 550 - 600 tons every day. To reduce waste, we formed a team to store the waste and transport it to the landfill using a three-wheeled motorbike. The method of empirical research is used in conducting this research, with legal research being useful to see the legal point of view in the real conditions of a fact that exists in society. The conclusion of this study is that the Denpasar city government program to transport waste to the TPA for three-wheeled motorized vehicles is less efficient because the amount of waste carrying capacity exceeds the limit, thereby endangering other vehicles. The Traffic Directorate of the Bali Police carried out two types of efforts to reduce the number of violations by means of prevention and action.

The phenotype of recovery VIII: Association among delay discounting, recovery capital, and length of abstinence among individuals in recovery from substance use disorders

IntroductionResearch defines recovery capital as the amount of tangible and intangible resources (e.g., human/personal, physical, social, and cultural) available to initiate and sustain recovery from substance use disorders (SUDs). An individual's amount of recovery capital is dynamic over time and influenced by a number of factors such as baseline amount at initiation of recovery/treatment, length of abstinence, access/availability of resources, and individual factors such as the decision to utilize available resources. Research has been proposed delay discounting (DD), which reflects an individual's relative preference for immediate versus delayed rewards, as a candidate behavioral marker for SUDs but has not yet examined it in the context of recovery capital, and DD may be an important aspect of human capital. Thus, the aim of the current study was to examine associations among recovery capital, DD, and length of abstinence. MethodsThe study included in its analysis data from 111 individuals in recovery from SUDs from the International Quit and Recovery Registry, an ongoing data collection program used to further scientific understanding of recovery. The study assessed recovery capital using the Assessment of Recovery Capital (ARC) and assessed discounting rates using an adjusting-delay task. The study team performed univariate linear regression to examine the relationship between total ARC score and demographic variables, length of abstinence, and DD. The research team performed a mediation analysis to understand the role of length of abstinence in mediating the relationship between DD and ARC score. ResultsTotal ARC score was significantly negatively associated with DD and positively associated with length of abstinence, even after adjusting for covariates. Mediation analysis indicated that length of abstinence significantly partially mediated the relationship between DD and ARC score. ConclusionThese findings support the characterization of DD as an important aspect of human capital and a candidate behavioral marker for SUDs. Future research may wish to investigate whether interventions designed to increase the value of future rewards also increase recovery capital.

Functional collection programming with semi-ring dictionaries

This paper introduces semi-ring dictionaries, a powerful class of compositional and purely functional collections that subsume other collection types such as sets, multisets, arrays, vectors, and matrices. We developed SDQL, a statically typed language that can express relational algebra with aggregations, linear algebra, and functional collections over data such as relations and matrices using semi-ring dictionaries. Furthermore, thanks to the algebraic structure behind these dictionaries, SDQL unifies a wide range of optimizations commonly used in databases (DB) and linear algebra (LA). As a result, SDQL enables efficient processing of hybrid DB and LA workloads, by putting together optimizations that are otherwise confined to either DB systems or LA frameworks. We show experimentally that a handful of DB and LA workloads can take advantage of the SDQL language and optimizations. SDQL can be competitive with or outperforms a host of systems that are state of the art in their own domain: in-memory DB systems Typer and Tectorwise for (flat, not nested) relational data; SciPy for LA workloads; sparse tensor compiler taco; the Trance nested relational engine; and the in-database machine learning engines LMFAO and Morpheus for hybrid DB/LA workloads over relational data.

Assessing the Relationship between Controlled Substance Prescribing and Opioid Poisoning Toxicology

This study updates previously reported drug overdose deaths in Allen County, Indiana with the purpose to evaluate changes in physician prescribing and drug overdose deaths following introduction of more restrictive Indiana controlled substance prescribing laws. In a retrospective review of drug overdose deaths, 2013-2017, Allen County, IN, autopsy, toxicology, police reports and prescribing data from the Indiana Scheduled Prescription Electronic Collection and Tracking Program (INSPECT) for 12 months preceding death were analyzed. Descriptive and correlational statistical measures were used. A total of 533 drug overdose deaths were reported: 414 deaths with complete records (369 unintentional, 42 intentional, 3 undetermined). Decedents, mean age 42.3 years, were more likely male (60.6%), Caucasian (89.1%) and employed (70.2%). Overdose deaths increased significantly between 2014 (n=53) and 2017 (n=133). Non-prescribed opioids were present in 293 (70.8%) deaths and 298 (72%) deaths involved multiple substances. Fentanyl-related deaths markedly increased (2 (3.2%) in 2013, 67 (50.5%) in 2017) and correlate with police fentanyl seizures. The average number of prescribed controlled substances significantly decreased. Non-prescribed controlled substances including opioids contributed to most deaths. While gains have been made with responsible opioid prescribing, the current crisis is fueled by illicit opioids.

Sustained Citizen Science From Research to Solutions: A New Impact Model for the Social Sciences

Participatory research offers a valuable opportunity for collaboration between universities and citizens. It allows people with diverse educational and professional trajectories outside of academia to become partners in the research process, leading to multiple positive outcomes such as enhanced capacity building, contextually sensitive research design, and effective dissemination of findings. The chain of activities in the standard version of participatory research, however, stops short of developing solutions for improved quality of life, without making clear how enhanced capacities or locally embedded research findings will translate into tangible change for the communities where the research takes place. This shortcoming, we claim, is linked to the relatively short-term nature of most participatory research, as well as the scarcity of institutional structures and funding schemes to support the development of community-led solutions in the long run. The present article demonstrates that another model of research is both possible and desirable. It does this by presenting the outcomes of a sustained, long-term collaboration between university researchers and citizen social scientists in Beirut, Lebanon. The sustained nature of this work – running for over 3 years at the time of writing – has enabled our team to roll out a substantial programme of qualitative and quantitative data collection on prosperity and quality of life, and to subsequently use the findings and experience gained to create a set of interventions that address pressing challenges. We specifically argue that sustained, open-ended work on multiple activities – from research design and data collection, to data analysis, design of interventions and more – leads to accumulation of skills and experiences within the team, which can then be channelled towards implementing high quality interventions. This new model of impact for social science research prioritises partnership between universities and citizens, while highlighting the potential of such partnership to lead to solutions that make a real difference.

Achievement motivation among general diploma students in the light of some variables in the schools of Al Dakhiliyah Governorate - Sultanate of Oman: دافعية الإنجاز لدى طلبة الدبلوم العام في ضوء بعض المتغيرات في مدارس محافظة الداخلية - سلطنة عمان

The aim of this study was to measure the level of motivation of achievement among students of the general diploma in the schools of AL Dakhiliyah Governorate in Sultanate of Oman in light of some variables (gender, birth order, and family income level). To achieve the aim of the study, the researcher used the descriptive correlative method and he used the measure of achievement motivation which consists of (36) paragraphs divided into five dimensions: (goal setting and its clarity, ambition, perseverance and perceived efficiency). It’s validity and steadfastness have been verified. A random sample was selected from the study population represented by the general diploma students in AL Dakhiliyah Governorate in Sultanate of Oman, 5452 male and female students enrolled in the academic year 2016-2017. The sample consisted of (825) male and female students i.e. (15%) of the size of the study population. The results of the study concluded in the following: - The level of achievement motivation was high in the study sample. - There were statistically significant differences at the level of significance (α≤0.05) in the estimations of the study sample on the level of achievement motivation attributed to gender variable in favor of females. - There were no statistically significant differences at the level of significance (0.05=α) in the estimations of the study sample on the level of achievement motivation attributed to the variable of birth order. - There were no statistically significant differences at the level of significance (0.05=α) in the estimations of the study sample on the level of motivation achievement attributed to the variable of family income level. The study came out with some recommendations, such as the need to pay attention to measuring and developing achievement motivation among school students in general and general diploma students in particular, in a developmental, preventive, and curative manner. In the field of research, this study recommended carrying out studies similar to the current study, but with more comprehensive and broader samples, as well as carrying out longitudinal studies to know the impact of collective counseling programs on the development of achievement motivation.

Privatizing the fisheries observer industry: Neoliberal science and policy in the U.S. West Coast fisheries

This article examines fisheries observation and monitoring programs as sites for the neoliberalization of science and the expansion of rights-based management. Rights-based management strategies are argued to avert the tragedy of the commons and yield sustainable commercial fisheries. Individual fishing quotas are a popular but contentious rights-based management tool, that is thought to privatize access to fisheries resources. For quotas to be effective, they require constant monitoring and surveillance to ensure compliance. The task of quota monitoring has fallen to fisheries observers––biologists that accompany commercial fishing trips and collect fisheries data. In this paper I draw from work in science and technology studies (STS) and political ecology, bridging scholarship on the neoliberalization of science and nature. Analyzing archival documents and interview data, I examine the history of the U.S. observer program then narrow focus to the U.S. West Coast Groundfish Observer Program as a case study. Through this analysis, I make two central arguments. First, fisheries observation and monitoring programs have undergone a shift to privatization and are thus important, and to-date understudied, sites of neoliberalization in fisheries science and management. Second, fisheries observation and monitoring programs have been restructured to resolve the inherent shortcomings of both capitalism and neoliberal fisheries policy. I highlight the impacts of restructuring on fishermen and the fisheries observation program more broadly, demonstrating that observation and data collection programs reproduce and reinforce neoliberal governance regimes. I conclude by discussing the ontological and epistemological implications of subsuming environmental monitoring and data collection under neoliberal governance.

Data Release: DNA Barcodes of Plant Species Collected for the Global Genome Initiative for Gardens (GGI-Gardens) II

The Global Genome Initiative for Gardens (GGI-Gardens) is an international partnership of botanic gardens and arboreta that aims to preserve and understand the genomic diversity of plants on Earth. GGI-Gardens has organized a collection program focused on the living collections that partner institutions and supports the preservation of herbarium and genomic vouchers. Collections made through GGI-Gardens are deposited in recognized herbaria and Global Genome Biodiversity Network-partnered biorepositories worldwide, meaning that they are made available to the public. With support from its parent organization, the Global Genome Initiative (GGI), plant DNA barcode sequencing is performed using tissues collected through this partnership that represent taxa without barcode sequences in GenBank. This is the second data release published by GGI-Gardens and constitutes 2722 barcode sequences from 174 families and 702 genera of land plants. All DNA barcodes generated in this study are now available through the Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) and GenBank.

Social fabric: damage and reconstruction on the basis of a collective music program

PurposeThe purpose of this study was to understand the changes in the social fabric of victims of forced displacement in Colombia as a result of these events, as well as the contributions of belonging to a collective musical program in reconstructing the social fabric of the participants. In Latin America, the metaphor of social fabric is used to represent the web of social relations that shape society. A five-year doctoral investigation sought to understand the changes in the social fabric of victims of forced displacement in Colombia resulting from these events, as well as the contributions of belonging to a collective musical program in reconstructing the social fabric of the participants. The study was undertaken using a qualitative approach and simple statistics, with which were analyzed 14 life stories and 70 sound postcards across seven families, who were victims of violence and belonged to the musical program in question. The research identified as key elements of the social fabric: networks, cohesive or divisive tangible resources, precarious or sufficient tangible resources, the experiences.Design/methodology/approachThis research had a qualitative, ethnographic and narrative approach. It was developed through life stories with sound postcards and semi-structured interviews. The research participants were 14 people from families in the program studied and 10 teachers from the same program. The fieldwork was carried out over a period of six months in four cities in Colombia, taking four to five weeks in each city. In addition to the above, documents of the organization studied were reviewed.FindingsThis paper shows the impacts on the social fabric of the participants in terms of the negative impact on their family and social networks, as well as the emergence after forced displacement of divisive intangible resources associated with distrust of self, others and society. Collective musical spaces help to break the sense of anonymity and isolation by creating new networks through which cohesive intangible resources circulate, helping participants to regain confidence in themselves and others through temporary musical identity and peaceful identity.Research limitations/implicationsThe limitations of this research relate to being a case study in Colombia. Although this is a national program and the study has been carried out in four different cities in the country, it is not possible to generalize. However, it is possible that in the future it will be possible to contrast the findings with the processes developed with similar organizations working in music for social construction.Practical implicationsThe results of this research have practical implications insofar as they can help to better understand the elements that make up the social fabric, the impacts of violence for families who have experienced it and the paths to recovery. Particularly for music organizations with social objectives, it can help to better understand their social impact. In that sense, it allows strategic elements of the organizations to be adjusted so that their social objectives are better met.Social implicationsThe social implications are related to the responsibility of organizations that work with victims of the armed conflict to understand the impact of violence on these people, as this understanding allows them to generate appropriate strategies of care. Particularly, for artistic organizations, and in this case, musical organizations, to understand how their action can collaborate in the recovery of people.Originality/valueAlthough the term social fabric is widely used in Latin American literature, there are few studies that clarify the concept and its application in concrete social situations. This research managed to define the specific elements of the concept and to approach the affectation of these elements by violence. Likewise, the research manages to show some ways for the recovery of the social fabric of the victims owing to their participation in the collective musical space.