Financial hardship and health risk behavior during COVID-19 in a large US national sample of women.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 has caused over 300,000 US deaths thus far, but its long-term health consequences are not clear. Policies to contain the pandemic have led to widespread economic problems, which likely increase stress and resulting health risk behaviors, particularly among women, who have been hardest hit both by job loss and caregiving responsibilities. Further, women with pre-existing disadvantage (e.g., those without health insurance) may be most at risk for stress and consequent health risk behavior. Our objective was to estimate the associations between financial stressors from COVID-19 and health risk behavior changes since COVID-19, with potential effect modification by insurance status. We used multilevel logistic regression to assess the relationships between COVID-19-related financial st

SUBMITTER: Sampson L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7823049 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature