TY - JOUR AU - Asare, Matthew AU - Okafor, Chukwuemeka N AU - Bautista, Karla J PY - 2021/04/29 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Assessment of Perceptions and impacts of COVID-19, and adherence to Public Health Recommendations among Black/ African Americans JF - American Journal of Health Studies JA - AJHS VL - 35 IS - 4 SE - Articles DO - 10.47779/ajhs.2020.260 UR - https://amjhealthstudies.com/index.php/ajhs/article/view/260 SP - AB - <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p>We evaluated the associations between health belief model (HBM) constructs and adherence to COVID-19 public health recommendations (PHR) among 433 Black/African Americans (AA) in the US. We found that participants’ perceived severity, perceived benefits, and perceived barriers were posi- tively associated with PHR (p&lt;.01), and the variables accounted for 25% of the variance. Factors such as worrying about health and worrying about living conditions were associated with participants’ anxiety and depressive symptoms (p&lt;.01) accounting for 12.6 and 9.2% of the variance respectively. HBM con- structs could be used to develop an intervention to encourage adherence to COVID-19 PHR among AA.</p></div></div></div> ER -