Extreme racism-related events and poor sleep in African-American women.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Much of the research linking racism-related stressors to poor health has focused on fairly non-violent forms of racism that directly impact individuals under study. Exposure to particularly extreme and/or violent racist events are increasingly visible via smartphone recordings and social media, with consistent anecdotal reports of the effects of seeing and hearing about these events on sleep among minorities who racially identify with the victims.

Objective

This study examines whether exposure to direct and vicarious racism-related events (RREs), including more extreme events, are associated with sleep quality. Additionally, we examine effects of less and more violent direct RREs and vicarious RREs witnessed in person and via social media.

Methods

Among 422

SUBMITTER: McKinnon II 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9598673 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature