Socioeconomic impact of COVID-19 and willingness to be vaccinated in African American/Black and Hispanic/Latinx adults

PURPOSE: To describe the socioeconomic and healthcare-related effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and willingness to receive a free COVID-19 vaccine, among African American/Black (AA/B) and Hispanic/Latinx (H/L) adults with asthma currently enrolled in a large trial. METHODS: The present analysis is a...

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Autores principales: Carroll, Jennifer K., Arias Hernandez, Paulina, Brooks-Greisen, Alicia, Carlos Cardet, Juan, Cui, Jing, Ericson, Brianna, Fagan, Maureen, Fajt, Merritt L., Forth, Victoria E., Fuhlbrigge, Anne L., Lorenzi, Margie, Rodriguez-Louis, Jacqueline, Maher, Nancy E., Manning, Brian K., Pace, Wilson D., Shields, Joel B., Israel, Elliot
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Publicado: Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of National Medical Association. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8789400/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35090746
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnma.2021.12.010
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author Carroll, Jennifer K.
Arias Hernandez, Paulina
Brooks-Greisen, Alicia
Carlos Cardet, Juan
Cui, Jing
Ericson, Brianna
Fagan, Maureen
Fajt, Merritt L.
Forth, Victoria E.
Fuhlbrigge, Anne L.
Lorenzi, Margie
Rodriguez-Louis, Jacqueline
Maher, Nancy E.
Manning, Brian K.
Pace, Wilson D.
Shields, Joel B.
Israel, Elliot
author_facet Carroll, Jennifer K.
Arias Hernandez, Paulina
Brooks-Greisen, Alicia
Carlos Cardet, Juan
Cui, Jing
Ericson, Brianna
Fagan, Maureen
Fajt, Merritt L.
Forth, Victoria E.
Fuhlbrigge, Anne L.
Lorenzi, Margie
Rodriguez-Louis, Jacqueline
Maher, Nancy E.
Manning, Brian K.
Pace, Wilson D.
Shields, Joel B.
Israel, Elliot
author_sort Carroll, Jennifer K.
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description PURPOSE: To describe the socioeconomic and healthcare-related effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and willingness to receive a free COVID-19 vaccine, among African American/Black (AA/B) and Hispanic/Latinx (H/L) adults with asthma currently enrolled in a large trial. METHODS: The present analysis is a sub-study of the PeRson EmPowered Asthma RElief (PREPARE) study, a pragmatic study of 1201 AA/B and H/L adults with asthma. A monthly questionnaire was completed by a subset of PREPARE participants (n = 325) during May–August, 2020. The 5-item questionnaire assessed self-reported impact of COVID-19 on respondents’ ability to obtain asthma medications, medical care quality, employment, income and ability to pay bills; and willingness to get a free COVID-19 vaccine. Bivariate analysis and multivariate logistic regression were performed to investigate factors associated with vaccine hesitancy. RESULTS: Of 325 survey respondents (25% AA/B, 75% H/L), the majority reported no impact of COVID-19 on medical care or ability to get asthma medications. Approximately half of employed respondents experienced a lower level of employment or job loss, and approximately half reported having difficulty paying bills during the pandemic. Thirty-five percent of respondents reported unwillingness and 31% reported being somewhat likely to receive a free COVID-19 vaccine. AA/B race/ethnicity and poorer reported physical health were associated with a higher likelihood of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. CONCLUSION: AA/B and H/L adults with asthma may experience changes in the quality of their asthma care and increased socioeconomic stressors as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and may be hesitant or unwilling to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
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spelling pubmed-87894002022-01-26 Socioeconomic impact of COVID-19 and willingness to be vaccinated in African American/Black and Hispanic/Latinx adults Carroll, Jennifer K. Arias Hernandez, Paulina Brooks-Greisen, Alicia Carlos Cardet, Juan Cui, Jing Ericson, Brianna Fagan, Maureen Fajt, Merritt L. Forth, Victoria E. Fuhlbrigge, Anne L. Lorenzi, Margie Rodriguez-Louis, Jacqueline Maher, Nancy E. Manning, Brian K. Pace, Wilson D. Shields, Joel B. Israel, Elliot J Natl Med Assoc Article PURPOSE: To describe the socioeconomic and healthcare-related effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and willingness to receive a free COVID-19 vaccine, among African American/Black (AA/B) and Hispanic/Latinx (H/L) adults with asthma currently enrolled in a large trial. METHODS: The present analysis is a sub-study of the PeRson EmPowered Asthma RElief (PREPARE) study, a pragmatic study of 1201 AA/B and H/L adults with asthma. A monthly questionnaire was completed by a subset of PREPARE participants (n = 325) during May–August, 2020. The 5-item questionnaire assessed self-reported impact of COVID-19 on respondents’ ability to obtain asthma medications, medical care quality, employment, income and ability to pay bills; and willingness to get a free COVID-19 vaccine. Bivariate analysis and multivariate logistic regression were performed to investigate factors associated with vaccine hesitancy. RESULTS: Of 325 survey respondents (25% AA/B, 75% H/L), the majority reported no impact of COVID-19 on medical care or ability to get asthma medications. Approximately half of employed respondents experienced a lower level of employment or job loss, and approximately half reported having difficulty paying bills during the pandemic. Thirty-five percent of respondents reported unwillingness and 31% reported being somewhat likely to receive a free COVID-19 vaccine. AA/B race/ethnicity and poorer reported physical health were associated with a higher likelihood of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. CONCLUSION: AA/B and H/L adults with asthma may experience changes in the quality of their asthma care and increased socioeconomic stressors as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and may be hesitant or unwilling to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of National Medical Association. 2022-04 2022-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8789400/ /pubmed/35090746 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnma.2021.12.010 Text en © 2022 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of National Medical Association. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Carroll, Jennifer K.
Arias Hernandez, Paulina
Brooks-Greisen, Alicia
Carlos Cardet, Juan
Cui, Jing
Ericson, Brianna
Fagan, Maureen
Fajt, Merritt L.
Forth, Victoria E.
Fuhlbrigge, Anne L.
Lorenzi, Margie
Rodriguez-Louis, Jacqueline
Maher, Nancy E.
Manning, Brian K.
Pace, Wilson D.
Shields, Joel B.
Israel, Elliot
Socioeconomic impact of COVID-19 and willingness to be vaccinated in African American/Black and Hispanic/Latinx adults
title Socioeconomic impact of COVID-19 and willingness to be vaccinated in African American/Black and Hispanic/Latinx adults
title_full Socioeconomic impact of COVID-19 and willingness to be vaccinated in African American/Black and Hispanic/Latinx adults
title_fullStr Socioeconomic impact of COVID-19 and willingness to be vaccinated in African American/Black and Hispanic/Latinx adults
title_full_unstemmed Socioeconomic impact of COVID-19 and willingness to be vaccinated in African American/Black and Hispanic/Latinx adults
title_short Socioeconomic impact of COVID-19 and willingness to be vaccinated in African American/Black and Hispanic/Latinx adults
title_sort socioeconomic impact of covid-19 and willingness to be vaccinated in african american/black and hispanic/latinx adults
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8789400/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35090746
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnma.2021.12.010
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