Psychosocial Impacts of COVID-19 and Racial Injustice on Undergraduate Research Trainees.

ABSTRACT: Undergraduate research programs (URPs) play an important role in preparing the next cohort of professionals in the health research workforce. URPs also provide continuity and structure during times of stress and uncertainty, like the COVID-19 pandemic and racial reckoning of 2020. This mixed-methods study describes the relationships between student stressors and educational experiences while examining program factors that might have mitigated negative consequences. Participants of an NIH-funded URP, BUILD (Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity), aimed to increase the number of students from underrepresented backgrounds in biomedical and behavioral sciences Ph.D. programs and research careers (N = 45), were surveyed in September 2020 and again in May 2021 to understand their p

SUBMITTER: Arruda EH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12667364 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature