Six feet apart or six feet under: The impact of COVID-19 on the Black community

Moore, Samuel K.; Jones-Eversley, Sharon D.; Tolliver, Willie; Wilson, Betty L.; Jones, Christopher A.

doi:10.1080/07481187.2020.1785053

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“…In addition, the surge of postpandemic grief worldwide will have the greatest impact in communities underresourced to start with, 36 application of implementation science to bereavement care 37 will be especially fruitful in improving the lives of bereaved people beyond the pandemic. Notably, neither the PGS nor other screeners used in this study to assess depressive, anxious, or post-traumatic symptomatology correlated even modestly with time across the six or more months of bereavement assessed in this research.…”

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The Utility of the Pandemic Grief Scale in Identifying Functional Impairment from COVID-19 Bereavement

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Neimeyer

Breen

2021

Journal of Palliative Medicine

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Background: Meeting the needs of people bereaved by COVID-19 poses a substantial challenge to palliative care. The Pandemic Grief Scale (PGS) is a 5-item mental health screener to identify probable cases of dysfunctional grief during the pandemic. Objective: The PGS has strong psychometric and diagnostic features. The objective was to examine the incremental validity of the PGS in identifying mourners at risk of harmful outcomes. Design: A cross-sectional survey design involving sociodemographic questions and self-report measures of pandemic grief, generalized anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, separation distress, functional impairment, meaning-making difficulties, and substance use coping. Setting/Subjects: A sample of people bereaved through COVID-19 (N = 1065) in the United States. Results: Fully 56.6% of participants scored above the cut score of ‡7 on the PGS for clinically dysfunctional pandemic grief and 69.7% coped with their loss using drugs or alcohol for at least several days in past two weeks. PGS scores were not associated with time since loss. Hierarchical multiple regression models demonstrated that the PGS uniquely explained variance in functional impairment, meaning-making difficulties, and substance use coping, over relevant background factors, bereavement-related psychopathology, and separation distress. In the final model, the standardized regression coefficients for the PGS were 2-15 times larger than for the other competing measures in explaining each of the three outcomes. Conclusions: The findings underscore the clinical utility of this short and easy-to-use measure in identifying risk of deleterious outcomes across a range of functional and behavioral domains.

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The Utility of the Pandemic Grief Scale in Identifying Functional Impairment from COVID-19 Bereavement

Lee

Neimeyer

Breen

2021

Journal of Palliative Medicine

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“…[1][2][3] The COVID-19 pandemic is another manifestation of racial injustice against marginalized communities. [4][5][6][7] Black men and women disproportionately face numerous health disparities, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and high blood pressure, 8 which increase one's susceptibility to COVID-19. 9 Latino/a communities also experience disparities in healthcare access related to economic inequities.…”

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“…Evolving research on the impact of COVID-19 on communities of color has demonstrated increased mental health symptoms 14,15 and economic hardship. 6 College students from communities of color are at a particularly challenging intersection of the COVID-19 pandemic as members of a marginalized community who were required to adapt to rapid changes in their academic, occupational, housing, and social situations. Accordingly, this study aimed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on this intersectional population.…”

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The impact of COVID-19 on college students from communities of color

Molock

Parchem

2021

Journal of American College Health

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Objective: To assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on daily living, mental well-being, and experiences of racial discrimination among college students from communities of color. Participants: Sample comprised 193 ethnically diverse college students, aged 18 to 25 years (M ¼ 20.5 years), who were participating in virtual internships due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A cross-sectional 16-item survey was developed as a partnership between two nonprofit organizations. The survey included both close-ended and open-ended questions assessing the impact of COVID-19. Results: The students of color reported disruptive changes in finances (54%), living situation (35%), academic performance (46%), educational plans (49%), and career goals (36%). Primary mental health challenges included stress (41%), anxiety (33%), and depression (18%). Students also noted challenges managing racial injustice during the COVID-19 pandemic. Conclusions: Higher education institutions will benefit from financially and emotionally supporting students of color during the COVID-19 pandemic and growing visibility of systemic racism.

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“…A small and anecdotal sample such as that which I collected in the Pacific Northwest of the United States cannot tell us much about how food rituals around death have changed across different geographies as the pandemic has progressed. However, data from the British UBVO survey which ran from June to September 2020 shows that feeding and other forms of social support of the bereaved were complicated through the summer across England; similar disruption to social support has also been shown in other locations by studies directly focusing on death rituals during this time (Bitusikova 2020;Moore et al 2020;Omonisi 2020). For the current disruptions in death practices and grieving due to COVID-19, food is only one part of the puzzle and initial research is suggesting that social distancing and quarantining policies will have major, long-term mental health impacts on the bereaved (Cardoso et al 2020;Gesi et al 2020;Stroebe and Schut 2020).…”

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Reflection: (Not) feeding the bereaved in the time of coronavirus

Parrish

2021

Food and Foodways

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in this article, i examine the complications to funerary rituals caused by the cOViD-19 pandemic. specifically, i consider the breakdowns of normal systems of community food provisions to bereaved families, while reflecting on both the creativity of populations to create new ritual activities and the lingering effects of being unable to complete expected rituals. Beginning with the death of my father in the early days of the pandemic, i go on to trace the ways in which food provisioning to the bereaved changed alongside developments in understandings of the virus. these changes are contrasted with my previous experiences of food as abundant in funerary situations, in order to draw out the ways in which the cOViD-19 pandemic caused a major disruption in how care for bereaved persons is expressed.

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Six feet apart or six feet under: The impact of COVID-19 on the Black community

Cited by 39 publications

References 23 publications

The Utility of the Pandemic Grief Scale in Identifying Functional Impairment from COVID-19 Bereavement

The Utility of the Pandemic Grief Scale in Identifying Functional Impairment from COVID-19 Bereavement

The impact of COVID-19 on college students from communities of color

Reflection: (Not) feeding the bereaved in the time of coronavirus

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