Racial discrimination, depressive symptoms, and sleep problems among Blacks in the rural South.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Experiences of racial discrimination are common for Black Americans and have been associated with depression and sleep disturbance, factors likely involved in the insidious development of health disparities. The current study replicates these associations and examines longitudinal linkages.

Method

Black American couples (men: N = 248, M_age = 40, SD = 9; women: N = 277, M_age = 37, SD = 7) and their children, aged 9 to 14 (N = 276, M_age = 11, SD = 1), completed measures of experiences of racial discrimination, depressive symptoms, and sleep problems at baseline and 8-month follow-up. In separate analyses for men, women, and youth, we examined concurrent and prospective as

SUBMITTER: Hart AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7876626 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature