December 2023: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19-Related Stressor Exposure and Adverse Mental Health Outcomes Among Health Care Workers

Dr. Aaron Samuel Breslow (Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine) joins AJP Audio to discuss the racial and ethnic disparities in the impact of COVID-19 and pandemic related stressors and adverse mental health outcomes on health care workers in the Bronx, New York.  Following we’ll once again check in with American Journal of Psychiatry Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ned Kalin on the rest of the December issue of AJP. Breslow interview [00:56] Why look at the Bronx in particular? [2:54] COVID-19 related stressors and pandemic related stressors [05:27] Unrelated adverse mental health outcomes [07:40] Limitations [09:29] Policy considerations [11:39] Further research [14:22] Kalin interview [16:17] Breslow et al. [16:34] Guintivano et al. [18:36] Copeland et al. [22:10] Joseph et al. [25:21] Shim and Rodriguez [27:15] Transcript Be sure to let your colleagues know about the podcast, and please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you listen to it. Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen to other podcasts produced by the American Psychiatric Association. Browse articles online. How authors may submit their work. Follow the journals of APA Publishing on Twitter. E-mail us at ajp@psych.org

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