Mandatory COVID Vaccination: Perspectives from Graduate Allied Health Students at a Mid-size University in the United States.

Because many students enrolled in Allied Health programs are on track to becoming health practitioners or clinicians and frontline workers who would become critical sources of information for patients it is critical to understand their perspectives about mandatory COVID-19 vaccination. Results: COVID-19 Risk Perception. A significant majority of the respondents had high or strongly high-risk perception of COVID-19, 82(56.

Stress and Stressors: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Students, Faculty and Staff at a Historically Black College/University.

Unlabelled: Due to COVID-19 restrictions, academic institutions have changed their modus operandi, particularly in adopting distance learning in lieu of face-to-face instruction. This has sometimes produced unanticipated effects on students. The purpose of this study was to determine COVID-19 pandemic stressors and coping mechanisms utilized as relief measures by students, faculty, and staff in the College of Health Sciences at a historically Black institution.

A Community-Driven Intervention for Improving Biospecimen Donation in African American Communities.

Introduction: Human biospecimens are an invaluable resource for addressing cancers and other chronic diseases. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of an educational intervention on biospecimen knowledge and attitudes.

Methods: The participants consisted of 112 African Americans, 18 years and older, and who had not provided biospecimens for any health-related research in the past.

Factors influencing breast cancer screening in low-income African Americans in Tennessee.

This study examined demographic and lifestyle factors that influenced decisions and obstacles to being screened for breast cancer in low-income African Americans in three urban Tennessee cities. As part of the Meharry Community Networks Program (CNP) needs assessment, a 123-item community survey was administered to assess demographic characteristics, health care access and utilization, and screening practices for various cancers in low-income African Americans. For this study, only African American women 40 years and older (n = 334) were selected from the Meharry CNP community survey database.

Tennessee HIV/AIDS people of color project.

The 25th anniversary of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the United States occurred in 2006. Despite advances in detection, treatment, and care, AIDS, along with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) remain formidable opponents. Tremendous strides have been made in educating the public about associated risk factors and effective prevention methods.

Something old is new again: mutual aid and the Tennessee Office of Minority Health.

This article is the result of inquiries and ethnographic encounters over a 15-year period, with the governmental agency known as the Tennessee Office of Minority Health (TOMH), a division of the Tennessee Department of Health. This article concerns the innovative and participatory response of TOMH to support African American health in Tennessee. For the purposes of this article, an innovative and participatory response to alleviate any form of human suffering is defined as mutual aid.

Exploring associations between church-based social support and physical activity.

Objective: This study tested associations between church-based instrumental and informational social support and meeting physical activity guidelines.

Methods: Cross-sectional data were analyzed for 1625 rural residents using logistic regression.

Results: Associations were found between instrumental social support and performing some amount of physical activity but not between the 2 forms of support and meeting physical activity guidelines.