Pandemic stresses tied to more anxiety, depression in Black US adultsThe stresses of the COVID-19 pandemic have been particularly detrimental for the mental health of Black adults, finds a new US study in the Journal of Gerontology.Georgia Institute of Technology and North Carolina State University (NCSU) researchers analyzed the daily symptom diaries of 526 US adults aged 21 to 79 years (54% White, 46% Black) kept for 21 days during October and November 2020.
In a total of 3,605 diary entries, participants responded to questions about their anxiety and depression symptoms, stresses experienced in the prior 24 hours, and expected stresses in the next 24 hours.Among White participants, older people reacted more to COVID-19–related stresses