Frontline work and racial disparities in social and economic pandemic stressors during the first COVID-19 surge.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the magnitude of racial-ethnic disparities in pandemic-related social stressors and examine frontline work's moderating relationship on these stressors.

Data sources

Employed Californians' responses to the Institute for Governmental Studies (IGS) poll from April 16-20, 2020, were analyzed. The Pandemic Stressor Scale (PSS) assessed the extent to which respondents experienced or anticipated problems resulting from the inability to pay for basic necessities, job instability, lacking paid sick leave, unavailability of childcare, and reduced wages or work hours due to COVID-19.

Study design

Mixed-effects generalized linear models estimated (1) racial-ethnic disparities in pandemic stressors among workers during the first COVID-19 surge, adjusting for c

SUBMITTER: Haro-Ramos AY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10339174 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature