Desire for Period Products: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Food Pantry Users in Three Midwestern States.

Objective: To examine the desire for period products among food pantry users in the U.S.

Methods: Cross-sectional study of 4,929 food pantry users at food pantries in Missouri, Kansas, and southwestern Illinois.

Mitigating the Spread of COVID-19: Differential Perceptions of Midwestern University Students.

Racially minoritized groups have disproportionately borne the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in America. We draw on Public Health Critical Race Praxis to investigate racial differences in college students' attitudes about mitigation efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19 and concerns about one's own and others' actions in these efforts. We used survey data from a random sample of Midwestern undergraduates (n = 620) who participated in a fall 2020 COVID-19 study; chi-square tests and logistic regression modeling were employed.

Undergraduate Vaccine Hesitancy and the Influence of "Home" Locales.

Purpose: In the US, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed deeply rooted resistance to public health. This has important consequences for SARS-CoV-2 variant spread and for future uptake of influenza and other vaccines. We examine these phenomena in Missouri, where its low vaccination rates, high levels of uninsured residents, predominance of conservative values, and stark rural-urban divides are intricately connected to public health resistance.

The end of the gender revolution? Gender role attitudes from 1977 to 2008.

After becoming consistently more egalitarian for more than two decades, gender role attitudes in the General Social Survey have changed little since the mid-1990s. This plateau mirrors other gender trends, suggesting a fundamental alteration in the momentum toward gender equality. While cohort replacement can explain about half of the increasing egalitarianism between 1974 and 1994, the changes since the mid-1990s are not well accounted for by cohort differences.