Psychiatric News (2/10) reports, “Family structure, socioeconomic status, and the experience of racism were primarily associated with negative impacts of COVID-19 across family generations in minority communities, more so than preexisting medical or psychiatric conditions,” investigators concluded in research utilizing “data from the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, a long-term study of brain development and child health in the United States.” The study revealed that “among the 9,267 youth and their caregivers…social determinants of inequity, including lower socioeconomic status, living in single-parent households, and experiencing racism, were primarily associated with negative COVID-19 experiences, such as food insecurity and financial worry.” The findings were published online Feb. 9 in JAMA Psychiatry.
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— “Study Identifies Factors Associated With Negative COVID-19 Experiences, Psychiatric News, February 10, 2022