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AUTHOR(S) Adriana Luna; Courtney A. Zulauf-McCurdy; Angel Fettig (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Nneka Ibekwe-Okafor; Jacqueline Sims; Sihong Liu (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Justin W. Patchin; Sameer Hinduja
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a concern that cyberbullying incidents would increase as youth were spending more time online. Additionally, reports emerged that Asian American citizens were being disproportionately targeted due to the purported origination of the disease. The current study explores whether cyberbullying incidents increased among adolescents overall—and Asian American youth in particular—since the onset of the coronavirus. Three unique national surveys of teens (aged 13–17, mean = 14.96) conducted in 2016 (N = 4742), 2019 (N = 4250), and 2021 (N = 2546) were analyzed to track experience over time with general cyberbullying, as well as cyberbullying based on race or color. Additionally, respondents were asked in 2021 whether they had been cyberbullied more or less since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
AUTHOR(S) Huiguang Ren; Charissa S. L. Cheah; Xiaoli Zong (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Chase J. Boyer; Elisa Ugarte; Andrea C. Buhler-Wassmann (et al.)
This study aimed to understand how periodic shifts in financial cutbacks and fears of contracting COVID-19 contributed to children's externalizing behaviors due to increases in maternal stress among low-income Latina mothers during the first 10 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread health, economic, and psychological consequences for families and children. The Latino community is particularly vulnerable to the economic and health risks of this pandemic as a consequence of systemic oppression. The family stress model suggests that these family stressors will have psychological repercussions to parents, and downstream behavioral consequences to children.
AUTHOR(S) Austen B. McGuire; Yo Jackson; Jennifer McDonald
AUTHOR(S) Cixin Wang; Charissa Cheah; Jia Li Liu (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Mythili Sanikommu; Rebecca L. Fix
AUTHOR(S) Jennifer Cunningham-Erves; Heather M. Brandt; Maureen Sanderson (et al.)
Disparities in COVID-19 incidence, hospitalization, and mortality rates among African Americans suggest the need for targeted interventions. Use of targeted, theory-driven messages in behavioral and communication interventions could empower African Americans to engage in behaviors that prevent COVID-19. To address this need, a formative study was performed aiming to develop and design a culturally appropriate, theory-based library of messages targeting concerns around COVID-19 vaccines that could be used in behavioral and communication interventions for African Americans.
AUTHOR(S) Hulya Ermis-Demirtas; Ye Luo; Yun-Ju Huang
AUTHOR(S) Erin Bogan; Valerie N. Adams-Bass; Lori A. Francis (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) José M. Causadias; Lucía Alcalá; Kamryn S. Morris (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Katherine McCoy
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in increased distress at a societal level, with youth and young people bearing a disproportionate burden. A series of recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports has highlighted emergency department (ED) visit rates for suicide attempts among youth ages 12–25 during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study expands those analyses by adding race and ethnicity to the examination of suspected suicide attempts among youth. This study uses National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) data for Wisconsin from hospitals that consistently reported ED visits between the study period of January 1, 2019 and September 30, 2021. Suspected suicide attempt visits were identified using the CDC-developed suicide attempt query.
AUTHOR(S) Janet M. Wojcicki; Milagro Escobar; Andrea DeCastro Mendez
Latinos have had higher case counts, hospitalization rates and deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic nationally and in the state of California. Meanwhile, Latino vaccination rates remain lower than those of non-Hispanic Whites. COVID-19 vaccine nonintent, defined as intent to not vaccinate against COVID-19, among Latino individuals continues to be an issue in the state of California. Families from three Latino longitudinal mother–child cohorts previously recruited in the San Francisco Bay Area were surveyed telephonically from February to June 2021 to assess attitudes towards vaccination against COVID-19 and prior vaccination, in general, for themselves and their children. Risk for vaccine nonintent was assessed using the Mann–Whitney rank sum non-parametric test for continuous predictors and chi-squared tests for categorical ones.
AUTHOR(S) Xiangli Gu; Jean Keller; Tao Zhang (et al.)
Guided by the social ecological model, this study aimed to examine the relations of built environments (i.e., walking/cycling infrastructure, recreation facilities, neighborhood safety/crime), youth’s transition abilities, and changes of youth’s physical activity (PA) and play behaviors due to COVID-19-based restrictions. Ethnic and socioeconomic status (SES) disparities were also examined on studies variables during the COVID-19 restrictions. A cross-sectional research design was used to assess an anonymous online survey completed by US parents/guardians. The final sample had 1324 children and adolescents (Meanage = 9.75; SD = 3.95; 51.3% girls), and 35.5% the families were of upper socioeconomic class (income > $150,000). Parents reported the perceived built environment and neighborhood safety, child’s PA and play behaviors during COVID-19 pandemic shelter-in-place restrictions.
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