iCINGS FAM

Integrating Community-based Intervention Under Nurse Guidance with Families (iCINGS FAM) is a study testing the efficacy of telehealth, quality of life and health related outcomes in vulnerable minority adults and their care partners.

COVID-19 and rural health disparities

Minorities from underserved communities are at increased risk of COVID-19 related morbidity and mortality due to a variety of social and structural health barriers to health care access and higher rates of underlying chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease.

Additionally, health inequities may exacerbate chronic disease symptoms in patients recovering from COVID-19. undermining the mental and physical health not only of the patient but care partners who provide critical support.

This NIH funded study focuses on improving the collaborative health of minority COVID-19 survivor and care-partner dyads through interventions targeting social and structural health inequities.

Characterizing the influence of COVID-19, Racial Trauma, and Social Networks on CV Health Factors among young Black women in the South. Gayenell Magwood, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN; Jewel Scott, PhD, RN, FNP-C, FAHA.

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Spotlight

Minorities contract COVID-19 at higher rates, experiencing more severe health consequences, and 2.3 times more likely to die from COVID-19 complications
Minority adults are hospitalized with COVID-19 at rates 4.7x higher
Disparities in COVID-19 outcomes are driven by many of the same health inequities that fuel greater rates of chronic diseases in minority communities.
COVID-19 magnifies social injustices that underpin racial health inequities.

College of Nursing

iCINGS FAM

COVID-19 and rural health disparities

Meet the experts

Gayenell Magwood, Ph.D., RN

Jewel Scott, PhD, RN, FNP-C

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