{"id":468,"date":"2020-08-24T10:18:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T17:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=468"},"modified":"2020-08-25T10:19:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T17:19:32","slug":"perceived-discrimination-and-mental-distress-amid-the-covid-19-pandemic-evidence-from-the-understanding-america-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/24\/perceived-discrimination-and-mental-distress-amid-the-covid-19-pandemic-evidence-from-the-understanding-america-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Perceived Discrimination and Mental Distress Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From the Understanding America Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Liu et al. report that the overall percentage of American adults experiencing COVID-19-associated discrimination more than doubled from 4% to 10% between March and April of 2020. In particular, non-Hispanic Black and Asian people were more likely to report experiencing discrimination, as were people who reported wearing facemasks in public.<\/li>\n<li>Experiencing COVID-19-associated discrimination was associated with higher levels of mental distress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Liu et al. (July 2020). Perceived Discrimination and Mental Distress Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From the Understanding America Study. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.amepre.2020.06.007\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.amepre.2020.06.007<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liu et al. report that the overall percentage of American adults experiencing COVID-19-associated discrimination more than doubled from 4% to 10% between March and April of 2020. In particular, non-Hispanic Black and Asian people were more likely to report experiencing discrimination, as were people who reported wearing facemasks in public. Experiencing COVID-19-associated discrimination was associated&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/24\/perceived-discrimination-and-mental-distress-amid-the-covid-19-pandemic-evidence-from-the-understanding-america-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42,29,43],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-disparities","tag-public-health","tag-usa","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}