The Death of George Floyd: Bending the Arc of History Toward Justice for Generations of Children

Dreyer, Benard P.; Trent, Maria; Anderson, Ashaunta T.; Askew, George L.; Boyd, Rhea; Coker, Tumaini R.; Coyne‐Beasley, Tamera; Fuentes-Afflick, Elena; Johnson, Tiffani J.; Mendoza, Fernando; Montoya-Williams, Diana; Oyeku, Suzette O.; Poitevien, Patricia; Spinks-Franklin, Adiaha I. A.; Thomas, Olivia; Walker-Harding, Leslie R.; Willis, Earnestine; Wright, Joseph L.; Berman, Stephen; Berkelhamer, Jay E.; Jenkins, Renée R.; Kraft, Colleen A.; Palfrey, Judith S.; Perrin, James M.; Stein, Fernando

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“…Finally, there could be other time-varying factors that contribute to the increase in mental health symptoms between our survey waves. Most importantly, the increased media attention to police killings of Black Americans and their daily experiences of discrimination, harassment and microaggressions may have heightened a sense of vulnerability between Waves I and II, particularly for Black college students [ 45 ]. While this study cannot speak to the mental health consequences of persistent structural violence towards Black Americans, our results underscore the disparate impacts of Covid-19-related stressors on first-year students’ mental health [ 46 , 47 ].…”

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The Covid-19 pandemic and mental health of first-year college students: Examining the effect of Covid-19 stressors using longitudinal data

2021

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Purpose The Covid-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented stress to students and educational institutions across the world. We aimed to estimate the effect of the pandemic on the mental health of college students. Methods We used data on 419 first-year students (ages 18–20) at a large public university in North Carolina both before (October 2019-February 2020) and after (June/July 2020) the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. After evaluating descriptive data on mental health and stressors by students’ demographic characteristics, we estimated the associations between Covid-19 stressors (including work reductions, health, distanced learning difficulties and social isolation) and mental health symptoms and severity controlling for students’ pre-pandemic mental health, psychosocial resources, and demographic characteristics. Results We found that the prevalence of moderate-severe anxiety increased from 18.1% before the pandemic to 25.3% within four months after the pandemic began; and the prevalence of moderate-severe depression increased from 21.5% to 31.7%. White, female and sexual/gender minority (SGM) students were at highest risk of increases in anxiety symptoms. Non-Hispanic (NH) Black, female, and SGM students were at highest risk of increases in depression symptoms. General difficulties associated with distanced learning and social isolation contributed to the increases in both depression and anxiety symptoms. However, work reductions as well as Covid-19 diagnosis and hospitalization of oneself, family members or friends were not associated with increases in depression or anxiety symptoms. Conclusion Colleges may be able to reduce the mental health consequences of Covid-19 by investing in resources to reduce difficulties with distance learning and reduce social isolation during the pandemic.

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The Covid-19 pandemic and mental health of first-year college students: Examining the effect of Covid-19 stressors using longitudinal data

2021

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“…As academic pediatricians, we shape clinical practice, medical education, research, leadership, and advocacy. While we speak out against the brutal injustices committed by police, 5 it is also imperative that we critically examine injustices perpetuated within our own field. We, too, must get our own house in order.…”

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Getting “Our House” in Order: Re-Building Academic Pediatrics by Dismantling the Anti-Black Racist Foundation

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Academic Pediatrics

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“…In addition to our individual commitments to address issues of racism and social injustice especially as related to child health outcomes, there is a clear need to develop rigorous approaches linking key medical and non-medical groups and institutions to develop impactful strategies and action plans. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] The APS is committed to improving the short-and long-term health and wellbeing of children by providing a forum to promote effective strategies to enhance research, education, training, and advocacy in pediatric academic medicine throughout North America. As part of its approach toward developing strategic plans to address key issues in pediatric academic medicine, the APS selects a major theme to target each year through selection of its "Issue of the Year."…”

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“…As pediatricians, we know that racism and social injustice are endemic in our society and have adversely affected many aspects of child health and well-being, with clear evidence of life-long consequences. [2][3][4][5][6] These include worse perinatal outcomes for both mother and child, higher rates of childhood disease-related morbidities, and the persistence of adverse effects on health into adulthood. [10][11][12][13][14] Clearly, there is an especially important imperative for pediatricians and child health providers to play in addressing racism, bigotry, social injustice, and inequities in our research and health care system most broadly, which includes important and longstanding issues addressed by the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as longneglected issues in Native children; ethnicity; religion; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights; and ongoing problems related to immigrant families, especially those seeking asylum in our country.…”

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Racism and social injustice as determinants of child health: the American Pediatric Society Issue of the Year

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We are now experiencing extraordinary challenges that are adversely impacting the health and well-being of our children and their families. These include multiple and very interrelated issues: coronavirus disease (COVID), Black Lives Matter, the struggling economy, immigration, environmental toxins, child abuse, gun violence, and others. Beyond responding to the complex acute stresses of clinical disease, the COVID pandemic has further unmasked chronic issues of racism, social injustice, disparities, and inequities that permeate our health care system. 1-7 For example, the disproportionate effects of COVID in Black, Latinx, and Native Americans is reflected by a greater susceptibility for disease, hospitalizations, and mortality with infection. 8,9 Such findings reflect many factors, including racial differences in jobs and exposures, nutrition, and other chronic health illnesses, such as diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular diseases, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Well beyond the COVID pandemic, discrepancies in maternal, child, and adult health care, leading to death at earlier ages and worse morbidities, have been long recognized as reflecting major inequities in availability of health services, insurance coverage, social and economic factors, and other issues. 2,4,6 Thus addressing concerns underlying structural racism and sustained inequities in health care requires a greater awareness of the persistence of the US as an unequal society. 1-3

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The Death of George Floyd: Bending the Arc of History Toward Justice for Generations of Children

Cited by 82 publications

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The Covid-19 pandemic and mental health of first-year college students: Examining the effect of Covid-19 stressors using longitudinal data

The Covid-19 pandemic and mental health of first-year college students: Examining the effect of Covid-19 stressors using longitudinal data

Getting “Our House” in Order: Re-Building Academic Pediatrics by Dismantling the Anti-Black Racist Foundation

Racism and social injustice as determinants of child health: the American Pediatric Society Issue of the Year

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