ArticleJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2021
Coping with Racism: a Perspective of COVID-19 Church Closures on the Mental Health of African Americans.
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- New York City Faith-Based Leaders' Views on COVID-19's Impact on the Mental Health Needs of Black/African American Communities.Journal of community health · 2025Article
- Associations Between Religiosity and Medical Mistrust: An Age-Stratified Analysis of Survey Data from Black Adults in Chicago.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- A Culturally Adapted Perioperative Mental Health Intervention for Older Black Surgical Patients.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2024Article
- Black Pastors' Experiences of Occupational and Life Stress During COVID-19 in the USA.Journal of religion and health · 2024Article
- Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on meaningful activity engagement in racially and ethnically diverse older adults.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2023Article
- Pandemic-Related Stress May Be Associated with Symptoms of Poor Mental Health Among African Americans.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2023Article
- Australian Catholics' Lived Experiences of COVID-19 Church Closures.Journal of religion and health · 2023Article
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health and Mental Health Care During The COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2023Article
- Psychosocial Stressors and Coping Strategies Among African Americans During Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Qualitative Study.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2023Article
- The Role of Religions in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Narrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Centering Culture in Mental Health: Differences in Diagnosis, Treatment, and Access to Care Among Older People of Color.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2022Review
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- Religiosity/Spirituality and Cardiovascular Health: The American Heart Association Life's Simple 7 in African Americans of the Jackson Heart Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2022Article
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- A Review Study on the Trends of Psychological Challenges, Coping Ways, and Public Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Vulnerable Populations in the United States.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Review
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Abstract
Academic medical literature and news outlets extensively document how older individuals in communities of color, especially African American communities, are dying disproportionately of COVID-19 due to ongoing societal, racial, and healthcare disparities. Fear of death and suffering are acutely elevated in Black communities; yet, African Americans have been facing, coping with, and overcoming American societal racism and subsequent detriments to our mental health for centuries. Predominately African American churches (hereafter referred to as the "Black Church") have always served a historical, cultural, contextual, and scientifically validated role in the mental health well-being of African American communities coping with American racism. Nonetheless, buildings of worship closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March 2020. This article is a first-hand perspective of five Black internists/psychiatrists who are deeply involved in both academic medicine and leadership positions within the Black Church. It will explore how the physical closure of Black Churches during this period of increased mental stress, as caused by healthcare inequities revealed by the COVID-19 epidemic, is likely to be uniquely taxing to the mental health of African Americans, particularly older African Americans, who must cope with American racism without physical access to the Black Church for the first time in history.
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