Understanding Coping Strategies and Sociocultural Context in Black Americans' Mental Health.

IF 3.2 3区医学 Q2 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Pub Date : 2025-02-06 DOI:10.1007/s40615-025-02292-1

Rayven L Peterson, Candice N Hargons, Natalie Malone, Monyae A Kerney, Brittany Cannon, Danelle Stevens-Watkins, Camille Burnett, Lisa Higgins-Hord

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Abstract

Objectives: Using a sociocultural coping framework, we examined stressors and coping strategies among N = 65 Black adults with varying levels of cultural mistrust, which is defined as an attitudinal response to racism.

Method: We conducted an abductive structural tabular thematic analysis on short-form qualitative responses to a Black mental health survey.

Results: Participants reported several stressors (e.g., family, finances, occupation) and primarily active coping strategies including institutional mechanisms, such as religion.

Conclusion: Findings suggest that Black adults, regardless of cultural mistrust levels, actively cope despite stressors informed by their sociocultural context (e.g., race, gender, socioeconomic status) and barriers to treatment. Considering these factors, providers can work to enhance the established coping mechanisms, while integrating them into culturally responsive care, rather than remove them.

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Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-

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期刊介绍： Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities reports on the scholarly progress of work to understand, address, and ultimately eliminate health disparities based on race and ethnicity. Efforts to explore underlying causes of health disparities and to describe interventions that have been undertaken to address racial and ethnic health disparities are featured. Promising studies that are ongoing or studies that have longer term data are welcome, as are studies that serve as lessons for best practices in eliminating health disparities. Original research, systematic reviews, and commentaries presenting the state-of-the-art thinking on problems centered on health disparities will be considered for publication. We particularly encourage review articles that generate innovative and testable ideas, and constructive discussions and/or critiques of health disparities.Because the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities receives a large number of submissions, about 30% of submissions to the Journal are sent out for full peer review.