Psychological, social and financial impacts of COVID-19 on culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Sydney, Australia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore the psychological, social and financial outcomes of COVID-19-and the sociodemographic predictors of those outcomes-among culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Sydney, Australia.

Design

Cross-sectional survey informed by the Framework for Culturally Competent Health Research conducted between March and July 2021.

Setting

Participants who primarily speak a language other than English at home were recruited from Greater Western Sydney, New South Wales.

Participants

708 community members (mean age: 45.4 years (range 18-91)). 88% (n=622) were born outside of Australia, 31% (n=220) did not speak English well or at all, and 41% (n=290) had inadequate health literacy.

Outcome measures

Thirteen items regarding COVID-19-related

SUBMITTER: Muscat DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9091490 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature