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Towards a More Inclusive and Dynamic Understanding of Medical Mistrust Informed by Science.
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273 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 473 citations in OpenAlex.
- Overcoming health misinformation in marginalized groups: a systematic review.International journal for equity in health · 2025Pooled it
- COVID-19 Vaccination Messengers, Communication Channels, and Messages Trusted Among Black Communities in the USA: a Review.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Pooled it
- Medical mistrust as a barrier to HIV prevention and care.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2023Pooled it
- An HIV care provider training on addressing intersectional stigma and medical mistrust: A pilot randomized controlled trial.Patient education and counseling · 2026Trial
- Dialectical behavior therapy skills training for African American pregnant women with ACEs: a pilot study of feasibility, acceptability, and mental health barriers and attitudes.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Trial
- Exploring Racial Disparities in Awareness and Perceptions of Oncology Clinical Trials: Cross-Sectional Analysis of Baseline Data From the mychoice Study.JMIR cancer · 2024Trial
- Race differences in patient trust and distrust from audio-recorded cardiology encounters.Patient education and counseling · 2024Trial
- Are interactive and tailored data visualizations effective in promoting flu vaccination among the elderly? Evidence from a randomized experiment.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2024Trial
- Participant engagement with a short, wordless, animated video on COVID-19 prevention: a multi-site randomized trial.Health promotion international · 2023Trial
- The Effect of Racial Concordance on Patient Trust in Online Videos About Prostate Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2023Trial
- Group-Based Medical Mistrust and Healthcare Utilization Among Racially and Ethnically Minoritized Adults.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- HIV-Stigmatizing Beliefs and Attitudes as a Barrier to Early PrEP Care Continuum Engagement Among People Who Inject Drugs.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- The Role of Depression on Medical Mistrust and Mental Health Service Use in Black Adults.Community mental health journal · 2026Article
- 'I Took TB Medicine for Six Months Without Having TB': Personal and Institutional Factors Affecting Trust in Healthcare Among African Immigrants in Florida, United States.The International journal of health planning and management · 2026Article
- Medical mistrust, health system distrust, and their associations with healthcare delay and cancer screening attitudes in primary care.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Caught between worlds: West African immigrant mothers` experiences with the Finnish healthcare system: a qualitative study using the socioecological model.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- The Role of Medical Mistrust in Vaccination Decisions in Rural, Indigenous Namibian Communities.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Immigrant and Mistrust in the Healthcare Setting: A Thematic Review.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2026Review
- Racial and Ethnic Variations in a Multi-Channel Psychiatric Emergency Services Program.Community mental health journal · 2026Article
- Defining Social and Cultural Barriers to Global Stroke Care: A SVIN-Mission Thrombectomy Initiative.Stroke (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026Review
213 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Mistrust of medical advances and the medical professions continues to persist, and is perhaps increasing. The popular press has documented the growing number of parents globally whose concerns around childhood vaccination, albeit based on faulty scientific information, has led to the anti-vax movement which has already resulted in outbreaks of measles in various parts of the U.S. In recent years, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation has increased speculation and mistrust with regard to the denialism of the effectiveness of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to avert HIV infections, again based on misinformation. However, in other cases, medical mistrust reflects the very real historical and ongoing injustices experienced by socially and economically marginalized groups. Whether the genesis of the mistrust is based on fact or fallacy, the results may be similar. There are myriad negative consequences associated with medical mistrust, including lower utilization of healthcare and poorer management of health conditions. Mistrust is thought to provide a partial explanation for staggering health disparities, particularly among Black and African American people, and much of the public health and medical literature cites the infamous Tuskegee Study as a main catalyst for this persistent health-related mistrust among people of color and other groups who experience social and economic vulnerability. While mistrust is often referred to as a phenomenon existing within an individual or community, we must rethink this conceptualization and instead locate mistrust as a phenomenon created by and existing within a system that creates, sustains and reinforces racism, classism, homophobia and transphobia, and stigma. The purpose of this article is to briefly address the state of the medical mistrust literature, and to provide a summary of the articles included in this special issue on medical mistrust. Although the scholarship in this issue addresses diverse methodologies, outcomes and populations, they share a message: social inequality drives mistrust.
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