id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-279011-arjzx85c Ibrahimi, Sahra COVID-19 Devastation of African American Families: Impact on Mental Health and the Consequence of Systemic Racism 2020-09-16 .txt text/plain 1348 78 39 To our knowledge, no previous study has delineated inequities potentially incentivized by systemic racism, and whether synergistic effects impose an abnormally high burden of social determinants of mental health on African American families in the era of COVID-19 pandemic. In our model, we identified systemic racism to be the primary operator of mental health disparity, which disproportionately affects African American families at all levels of the SEM. No previous study has delineated inequities incentivized by systemic racism, and whether synergistic effects impose an abnormally high burden of social determinants of mental health on African American families in the era of COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we hypothesized systemic racism to be the primary operator of the mental health disparity, which disproportionately affects the psychological well-being of African American families at all levels of the socio-ecological model (SEM). • Systemic racism is the primary operator of mental health disparity, which disproportionately affects African American families at all levels of the social ecological model (SEM). ./cache/cord-279011-arjzx85c.txt ./txt/cord-279011-arjzx85c.txt