Communicating Mental Health Coping Resources Among College Students of Color: A Resilience Approach to COVID-19 Response
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected African American college students and put them at high risk of mental health concerns. Guided by the community resilience model, this study examined how Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) communicated mental health resources dur...
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| description | The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected African American college students and put them at high risk of mental health concerns. Guided by the community resilience model, this study examined how Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) communicated mental health resources during the COVID-19 pandemic. An analysis of HBCUs’ website-based communication showed that mental health received minimal importance in response to the ongoing pandemic. Although larger and advanced degree-granting institutions provided a relatively greater amount of mental health resources than smaller institutions, those resources might not be sufficient to buffer against the COVID-19 induced stressors. Providing such inadequate mental resources indicate that many HBCU institutions were unable to provide a necessary supportive environment for the campus communities. HBCUs may establish formal and informal networks with local and regional mental health support organizations and share resources. Specifically, smaller institutions would benefit from such networked support. Additionally, HBCUs need to prioritize mental health in their response to COVID-19 to promote resilience among the student community. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cc31ece7c2f040d48bf4194da822f21b2023-09-03T06:59:44ZengThe Netherlands PressJournal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research2576-00172576-00252022-11-015220323210.30658/jicrcr.5.2.5Communicating Mental Health Coping Resources Among College Students of Color: A Resilience Approach to COVID-19 ResponseNajma Akhther0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5897-3102Khairul Islam1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7624-0041Wayne State UniversityWayne State UniversityThe COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected African American college students and put them at high risk of mental health concerns. Guided by the community resilience model, this study examined how Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) communicated mental health resources during the COVID-19 pandemic. An analysis of HBCUs’ website-based communication showed that mental health received minimal importance in response to the ongoing pandemic. Although larger and advanced degree-granting institutions provided a relatively greater amount of mental health resources than smaller institutions, those resources might not be sufficient to buffer against the COVID-19 induced stressors. Providing such inadequate mental resources indicate that many HBCU institutions were unable to provide a necessary supportive environment for the campus communities. HBCUs may establish formal and informal networks with local and regional mental health support organizations and share resources. Specifically, smaller institutions would benefit from such networked support. Additionally, HBCUs need to prioritize mental health in their response to COVID-19 to promote resilience among the student community.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/jicrcr/vol5/iss2/5/historically black colleges and universities (hbcus)covid-19mental healthcoping resourcescommunity resilience |
| spellingShingle | Najma Akhther Khairul Islam Communicating Mental Health Coping Resources Among College Students of Color: A Resilience Approach to COVID-19 Response Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research historically black colleges and universities (hbcus) covid-19 mental health coping resources community resilience |
| title | Communicating Mental Health Coping Resources Among College Students of Color: A Resilience Approach to COVID-19 Response |
| title_full | Communicating Mental Health Coping Resources Among College Students of Color: A Resilience Approach to COVID-19 Response |
| title_fullStr | Communicating Mental Health Coping Resources Among College Students of Color: A Resilience Approach to COVID-19 Response |
| title_full_unstemmed | Communicating Mental Health Coping Resources Among College Students of Color: A Resilience Approach to COVID-19 Response |
| title_short | Communicating Mental Health Coping Resources Among College Students of Color: A Resilience Approach to COVID-19 Response |
| title_sort | communicating mental health coping resources among college students of color a resilience approach to covid 19 response |
| topic | historically black colleges and universities (hbcus) covid-19 mental health coping resources community resilience |
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