Effect of vicarious discrimination on race-based stress symptoms among Asian American young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States. Previous work has established that experiencing racism increases one's dysfunctional anxiety and avoidance actions-key symptoms of race-based stress symptoms. However, the psychological impact of vicarious, or secondhand, discrimination (witnessing racism targeting one's own race group) remains less understood.

COVID-19-related direct and vicarious racial discrimination: Associations with psychological distress among U.S. college students.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by a myriad of racist incidents targeting minorities in the U.S. Young adults are susceptible to direct and vicarious (indirect) pandemic-related racial discrimination.

Association Between College Course Delivery Model and Rates of Psychological Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Importance: College students in the US have been heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to increased rates of depression and anxiety, college students have faced unprecedented stressors, such as geographic relocation and abrupt conversion from in-person classes to online classes.

Objective: To study the association between course delivery model and psychological distress among US college students.

Testing positive, losing a loved one, and financial hardship: Real-world impacts of COVID-19 on US college student distress.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a particularly heavy toll on U.S. college students.

MIS-C frenzy: The importance of considering a broad differential diagnosis.

We report a case of a 3 year-old boy with possible typhoid fever with recent travel to a typhoid endemic area who was primarily managed as a case of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). The patient was initially treated for tonsillitis after a 3 day history of persistent fever, sore throat, and constipation. The patient presented later when he deteriorated.

Racial and socioeconomic status differences in stress, posttraumatic growth, and mental health in an older adult cohort during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted the most vulnerable and widened the health disparity gap in both physical and mental well-being. Consequentially, it is vital to understand how to best support elderly individuals, particularly Black Americans and people of low socioeconomic status, in navigating stressful situations during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. The aim of this study was to investigate perceived levels of stress, posttraumatic growth, coping strategies, socioeconomic status, and mental health between Black and non-Hispanic, White older adults, the majority over the age of 70.

The rising appendicitis mimicker: A case report of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children presenting with acute abdomen.

We describe a case of post-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). The 12-year-old child presented with appendicitis-like symptoms in the form of gradually worsening abdominal pain localizing over the right iliac fossa, fever, and vomiting. After an appendectomy, the abdominal pain did not resolve.