COVID-19 Pandemic Associations on Mental and Physical Health in African Americans Participating in a Behavioral Intervention.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has had disproportionate effects on communities of color, with higher death rates among African Americans (AA). The purpose of this study was to assess associations in African Americans' mental and physical health with the COVID-19 pandemic. Data for this study came from a larger nutrition intervention of AAs in the Southeastern United States, the Nutritious Eating with Soul study. Data collected before and after March 15, 2020 (the day when local South Carolina schools and businesses closed), were analyzed to assess the association of the pandemic on participants' stress, control of healthy eating, physical activity, and body mass index. Repeated measures analysis of covariance using full maximum likelihood estimation to handle missing data was used. At the onset of

SUBMITTER: Bernhart JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9734885 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature