The present study used data from the American Trends Panel to examine the interplay between the perceived COVID-19 health threat, discriminatory beliefs in medical settings, and psychological distress among Black Americans. We measured psychological distress as an average of five items modified from two established scales and used self-reports of perceived COVID-19 health threat and beliefs about discrimination in medical settings as focal predictors. Ordinary least squares regression was used to examine these relationships. Holding all else constant, we found that perceived COVID-19 health threat and the belief that Black Americans face racial discrimination in medical settings were both positively and significantly associated with higher levels of psychological distress. We also found a significant perceived COVID-19 health threat by belief about discrimination in medical settings interaction in the full model. Future studies should assess how these relationships vary across age groups and over time.

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感知到的 COVID-19 健康威胁增加了美国黑人的心理困扰。


本研究使用美国趋势小组的数据来研究美国黑人中感知到的 COVID-19 健康威胁、医疗环境中的歧视性信念和心理困扰之间的相互作用。我们将心理困扰衡量为从两个既定量表修改而来的五个项目的平均值，并使用对感知到的 COVID-19 健康威胁的自我报告和对医疗环境中歧视的信念作为重点预测因素。使用普通最小二乘回归来检查这些关系。在其他条件不变的情况下，我们发现，感知到的 COVID-19 健康威胁以及美国黑人在医疗环境中面临种族歧视的信念都与较高水平的心理困扰呈正相关且显着相关。我们还发现，在整个模型中，人们对医疗环境互动中存在歧视的信念构成了重大的 COVID-19 健康威胁。未来的研究应该评估这些关系如何随着年龄组和时间的推移而变化。