Dextiny McCain
5 Papers
Dextiny McCain is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Distrust. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 3 publications.
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Navigating a Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Knowledge, Sources of Information, and COVID-19-Related Precautions Taken by HBCU Students
Jeannette M. Wade,Stephanie Teixeira Poit,Anna K. Lee,Sally Ryman,Dextiny McCain,Christopher Doss,S. Shrestha,Adrienne T. Aiken Morgan +7 more
TL;DR: For example, this article found that many college-aged students receive their COVID-19-related information through social media and television even though research suggests that social media sources are more likely to be incorrect.
Contextualizing the racial gradient in covid-19 outcomes: Narratives from HBCU students.
Anna K. Lee,Jeannette M. Wade,Stephanie Teixeira-Poit,Dextiny McCain,Christopher Doss,S. Shrestha,Adrienne T. Aiken-Morgan +6 more
TL;DR: This article examined how Historically Black College or University (HBCU) students contextualize COVID-19 and found that emotional responses, colorblind rhetoric, lack of healthcare, essential work, distrust for the medical field, barriers to precautions like supply shortages and environmental factors, and poor baseline health.
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Associations Between Neighborhood SES Disadvantage and Feelings of Depression and Loneliness in Older Adults
Dextiny McCain,Adrienne T. Aiken Morgan,Regina Wright +2 more
TL;DR: Associations between neighborhood SES disadvantage and feelings of depression and loneliness in older adults are significant. Greater neighborhood SES disadvantage is associated with higher depression and loneliness scores.
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Associations between neighborhood disadvantage and mobility limitations among african americans
Dextiny McCain,Adrienne T. Aiken Morgan,A. Allan,Alyssa A. Gamaldo,Regina S. Wright,Roland J. Thorpe, Jr.,Jason C. Allaire,Keith E. Whitfield +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined the influence of neighborhood disadvantage on mobility among African American older adults and found that participants residing in more disadvantaged neighborhoods, based on national ADI, had higher odds of mobility limitations, but those in less disadvantaged neighborhoods based on state ADI and self-reported mobility limitations (national: OR = 1.02 (95% CI: 1.00-1.04); state: OR= 0.77 (0.63-0.95)).
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Health Status Among African Americans Living in Low-Income Housing
Adrienne Aiken-Morgan,Dextiny McCain,Karon Phillips,Keith Whitfield +3 more
TL;DR: Among low-income African American elders, greater neighborhood/state socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with worse health status, suggesting neighborhood context should be considered as an essential variable when assessing health status among aging African Americans.