ArticleJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2024
History of Racial Discrimination by Police Contributes to Worse Physical and Emotional Quality of Life in Black Americans After Traumatic Injury.
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- Diminishing Returns Among Black Patients With Cancer: The Intersection of Race and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2026Article
- Relationships among peri-traumatic circulating endocannabinoids and long-term, negative outcomes following traumatic injury.Psychopharmacology · 2026Article
- The diagnostic utility of the PCL-5 in a traumatically injured black population.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2025Article
- Bodily Harm: The Health Consequences of Policing in the United States.California law review · 2024Article
- Experiences of racial discrimination and adverse gene expression among black individuals in a level 1 trauma center sample.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundBlack Americans are more likely than their White counterparts to experience traumatic injury and worse functional outcomes. Unfair police treatment has been identified as one specific form of racial discrimination potentially driving these deleterious outcomes. The aim of the investigation was to better understand the relationship between experiences of discrimination by police and trauma-specific quality of life outcomes, including PTSD symptom severity, in Black Americans following traumatic injury.
methodTraumatically injured Black American adults (N = 53) presenting to a level 1 trauma center completed a measure of police and law enforcement discrimination at baseline, and quality of life and PTSD were assessed 6 months later.
resultsStepwise regressions results showed more frequent discrimination by police and law enforcement significantly predicted lower emotional and physical well-being 6 months after injury. Further, more frequent police discrimination resulted in more severe PTSD symptoms by 6 months after injury.
conclusionsFindings underscore that following an injury not specifically related to discrimination by police, patients' historical, negative police experiences contributed to worse physical and emotional recovery in the present. These findings, in unison with prior investigations, reveal the need to consider patients' history of negative police experiences as a social determinant of health in their recovery.
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