ArticleJournal of behavioral medicine2022
Medical avoidance among marginalized groups: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Experiences with diagnostic delay among underserved racial and ethnic patients: a systematic review of the qualitative literature.BMJ quality & safety · 2025Pooled it
- Healthcare discrimination, healthcare avoidance, and self-rated health in a sample of American Indians with type 2 diabetes.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- The relationship between racial discrimination in healthcare, loneliness, and mental health among Black Philadelphia residents.International journal for equity in health · 2025Article
- Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Groups May Have Underused The Emergency Department For Nonavoidable Visits, 2018-22.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2025Article
- Racial Discrimination as a Traumatic Bedrock of Healthcare Avoidance: A Pathway Through Healthcare Institutional Betrayal and Mistrust.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Medical Mistrust and Healthcare Seeking Among Women of Color with Chronic Vulvovaginal Pain.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- Everyday Discrimination and Trajectories of Transdiagnostic Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety among Young Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Stigma and health · 2024Article
- Exploring the intersectionality of racism and sexual/gender minority health: A call to action for health-system pharmacists.American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists · 2024Article
- One size doesn't fit all: methodological reflections in conducting community-based behavioural science research to tailor COVID-19 vaccination initiatives for public health priority populations.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Human mobility and the infectious disease transmission: A systematic review.Geo-spatial information science = Diqui kongjian xinxi kexue xuebao · 2024Article
- Demographic factors associated with healthcare avoidance and delay in the transgender population: Findings from a systematic review.Dialogues in health · 2023Review
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- Proposing a New Conceptual Syndemic Framework for COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: A Narrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
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Abstract
Medical avoidance is common among U.S. adults, and may be emphasized among members of marginalized communities due to discrimination concerns. In the current study, we investigated whether this disparity in avoidance was maintained or exacerbated during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We assessed the likelihood of avoiding medical care due to general-, discrimination-, and COVID-19-related concerns in an online sample (N = 471). As hypothesized, marginalized groups (i.e., non-White race, Latinx/e ethnicity, non-heterosexual sexual orientation, high BMI) endorsed more general- and discrimination-related medical avoidance than majoritized groups. However, marginalized groups were equally likely to seek COVID-19 treatment as majoritized groups. Implications for reducing medical avoidance among marginalized groups are discussed.
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