Racial and ethnic differences in perseverative cognition at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Coronavirus (COVID-19) disproportionately affects people of color (e.g., Black and Latinx individuals) in the U.S., increasing their morbidity and mortality relative to White people. Despite this greater threat to their well-being, the mental health impact of COVID-19 on people of color remains poorly understood. Perseverative cognition (PC; i.e., excessive worry and/or rumination), is a common psychological response to such threats that independently associates with poor mental and physical health.

Objective

To examine patterns of PC across race/ethnicity when the COVID-19 pandemic began.

Methods

This study surveyed 6,514 respondents from the NORC AmeriSpeak panel, a probability-based representative national sample of U.S. adults between 3/18/20-4/18/20. We

SUBMITTER: Williams DP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9161684 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature