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Racism and Racial Injustice During COVID-19: Impact on University Student Mental Health

Boitet, L. M.; Estep, C.; Schwiebert, L. M.; Upshaw, K.; Wolfner, C.; Hutson Chatham, A.; Garner, S.; Stowe, A.; Lanzi, R.

2022-09-01 public and global health
10.1101/2022.08.30.22279409 medRxiv
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The purpose of the study is to understand how undergraduate, graduate, and professional students were affected by the events of racial injustice and the COVID-19 pandemic. Data gathered from an online campus-wide survey administered during July and August 2020 indicated high levels of stress and rates of depression across all stages of training. A majority of these students also indicated that, while events around racism negatively impacted their mental health, such events did not affect students academic success as COVID-19 did. Although previous studies have demonstrated that student mental health has been negatively affected during COVID-19, this study shows that student mental health is also impacted by events driven by racism and racial injustice concurrent to the pandemic. In light of these findings, it is recommended that institutions adopt an intersectional approach toward addressing such contemporaneous stressors with initiatives that can adapt to multiple events simultaneously.

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