{"id":3012,"date":"2021-01-04T22:37:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T06:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3012"},"modified":"2021-01-04T22:37:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T06:37:35","slug":"rapid-mixed-methods-assessment-of-covid-19-impact-on-latinx-sexual-minority-men-and-latinx-transgender-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/04\/rapid-mixed-methods-assessment-of-covid-19-impact-on-latinx-sexual-minority-men-and-latinx-transgender-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid Mixed-Methods Assessment of COVID-19 Impact on Latinx Sexual Minority Men and Latinx Transgender Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rapid, mixed-methods study of Latinx sexual minority men and transgender women found that although no COVID-19 infections were noted among the participants, the pandemic impacted other aspects of participants\u2019 health and wellbeing. Participants reported increases in physical conflict or verbal arguments with a partner (14%) or other adult(s) (19%) due to stressors associated with the safer-at-home order, increased alcohol consumption (23%), and problems with sleep (67%) and mental health (78%). Half of the participants lost their jobs, and some experienced disruptions in access to HIV prevention medication, received less medical attention than usual (35%), or reported delays in critical gender-affirming hormones or procedures.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>MacCarthy et al. (Dec 31, 2020). Rapid Mixed-Methods Assessment of COVID-19 Impact on Latinx Sexual Minority Men and Latinx Transgender Women. PLOS ONE. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0244421\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0244421<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rapid, mixed-methods study of Latinx sexual minority men and transgender women found that although no COVID-19 infections were noted among the participants, the pandemic impacted other aspects of participants\u2019 health and wellbeing. Participants reported increases in physical conflict or verbal arguments with a partner (14%) or other adult(s) (19%) due to stressors associated with&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/04\/rapid-mixed-methods-assessment-of-covid-19-impact-on-latinx-sexual-minority-men-and-latinx-transgender-women\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-3012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-mental-health-personal-impact","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3013,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions\/3013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}