The impact of COVID-19 among Black women: evaluating perspectives and sources of information

作者：Rasheeta Chandler, Dominique Guillaume, Andrea G. Parker, A.H. Mack, Jill B. Hamilton, Jemea Dorsey, Natalie Hernandez · 发表于：Ethnicity and Health · 年份：2020 · DOI：10.1080/13557858.2020.1841120 · 被引用次数：90 · 研究领域：Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy、Racial and Ethnic Identity Research、COVID-19 and Mental Health

OBJECTIVES: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has burgeoned into a pandemic that highlights the countless social and health disparities that have existed in Black communities within the United States for centuries. Recent epidemiological data show that Black communities are being disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, resulting in higher morbidity and mortality rates compared to other racial and ethnic groups. For Black women in particular, a long-standing history of systemic racism and marginalization has resulted in increased vulnerability and susceptibility to certain adverse health outcomes. Recent data show that COVID-19 knowledge rates among Black participants are low, and that Black women who become infected with COVID-19 have higher risks of complications and mortality compared to their non-Black counterparts. Given this data, there is a need to explore where and how Black women are obtaining information that pertains to COVID-19, along with the impacts that COVID-19 may be having on their daily lives. DESIGN: We conducted interviews with 15 Black women who are clients at a community-based family service center to assess their understanding of COVID-19, determine how they were obtaining COVID-19 information, and evaluate the various impacts that COVID-19 was having on their lives. An initial codebook was developed based on the recorded interviews which included deductive and inductive codes. A thematic analysis of the data was then conducted using MaxQDA (Verbi So...