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- Racially minoritized women with limited socioeconomic resources are at higher risk for psychological distress due to the COVID-19 pandemic, influenced significantly by factors like financial concern, food insecurity, and housing instability.
- A study involving 96 women primarily consisting of Black participants analyzed trauma exposure and economic challenges as predictors for pandemic-related mental health issues, focusing on their mental and physical health concerns.
- Results indicated that economic factors were strong predictors of psychological distress, with food insecurity notably affecting concerns about mental health, while housing instability was linked to increased feelings of anhedonia during the pandemic.
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Background: Racially minoritized women with limited socioeconomic resources are at increased risk for adverse psychological outcomes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Disproportionate rates of trauma exposure and economic insecurity likely heighten risk for these outcomes among socioeconomically vulnerable individuals, but the unique contributions of these factors are poorly understood. As such, we examined trauma and economic factors as predictors of pandemic-related psychological distress and symptoms.
Methods: Ninety-six women recruited for a trauma research study (91.7% Black, =38.3 years, =11.8 years) completed measures of trauma exposure, economic insecurity, and several items assessing psychological distress and symptoms related to the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined concern for mental and physical health impacts of COVID-19 as well as changes in self-reported levels of anxiety and anhedonia from the three months prior to the pandemic to the past two weeks. Linear regression analyses were used to assess contributions of trauma exposure and economic insecurity to COVID-19-related distress.
Results: Childhood maltreatment and lifetime trauma exposure did not predict COVID-19-related distress; however, financial concern significantly contributed to concern for the physical health impact of COVID-19 ( = .30, < .05). Food insecurity emerged as the only significant predictor of concern for mental health impact of COVID-19 (=.91, < .01). Housing instability was the only significant predictor of COVID-19-related increases in anhedonia ( = -.30, < .05).
Conclusions: Economic insecurity, namely self-reported financial concern, food insecurity, and housing instability, was related to COVID-19-related psychological distress in a sample of predominately Black American women living in under-resourced communities. Findings may help identify populations at risk for COVID-19-related psychological distress and symptoms and develop effective interventions, such as expanding access to nutritious food sources and housing support, for minoritized community members.
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