A Cross-sectional Study of Perceived Stress and Racial Discrimination Among a National Sample of Young Men Who Have

Evette Cordoba1, Robert Garofalo, Lisa M Kuhns

  • 1Evette Cordoba, PhD, MPH, is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, New York, USA. Robert Garofalo, MD, MPH, is the Division Head of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, the Potocsnak Family Professorship in Adolescent & Young Adult Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, and Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Lisa M. Kuhns, PhD, is a Research Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Adolescent Medicine), Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Cynthia R. Pearson, PhD, is a Research Professor and Director of Research at the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute, School of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA. D. Scott Batey, PhD, MSW, is an Associate Professor of Social Work, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Josh Bruce, MPH, is the Director of Research Initiatives, Birmingham AIDS Outreach, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Asa Radix, MD, PhD, MPH, FIDSA, is the Senior Director of Research and Education, Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, New York, New York, USA. Uri Belkind, MD, MS, FAAP, AAHIVS, is the Associate Director of Adolescent Health (Health Outreach to Teens), Callen Lorde Community Health Center, New York, New York, USA. Marco A. Hidalgo, PhD, MA, is a Faculty Psychologist at the Center for Transyouth Health and Development and Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, The Saban Research Institute and the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Sabina Hirshfield, PhD, is a Principal Research Scientist, STAR Program, Department of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, New York, USA. Rebecca Schnall, PhD, MPH, RN-BC, FAAN, FACMI, is the Mary Dickey Lindsay Professor of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Columbia University School of Nursing, Professor of Population and Family Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.

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