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Introduction: Home visitor well-being is integral to delivering effective home visiting services and a core component of successful home visiting program implementation. While burnout (BO), compassion fatigue (CF), and compassion satisfaction (CS) have been studied extensively in physicians, nurses, and other health providers, little is known about the correlates of these phenomena in home visitors. Methods: This cross-sectional study examined demographic characteristics (age, race, gender), health and personal experiences (anxiety, physical health, and adverse childhood experiences), and job-related factors (caseload, role certainty, job satisfaction) as correlates of BO, CF and CS among a sample of 75 home visitors employed across six MIECHV-funded agencies in New York State. Descriptive statistics were used to characterize our sample; linear regressions were employed to investigate correlates with outcomes of interest. Results: Anxiety was significantly and positively associated with BO (β = 2.5, p < 0.01) and CF (β = 3.08, p < 0.01). Overall job satisfaction was significantly and inversely associated with BO only (β = -0.11, p < 0.001). Participants who identified as white were less likely to report higher levels of CS relative to non-white counterparts (β = -4.65, p = 0.014). Examinations of specific aspects of job satisfaction revealed significant associations between satisfaction with workplace operating conditions, nature of the work, and contingent rewards and select outcomes of interest. Discussion: Prioritizing preventive measures that target correlates of BO and CF, such as higher levels of anxiety and lower levels of job satisfaction – particularly operating conditions – may improve workforce well-being, continuity of service delivery, and ultimately quality of care provided to clients. Significance: What is known about this subject? Burnout (BO) and compassion fatigue (CF) pose serious threats to the home visiting workforce and quality of service delivery. Little is known about the relationships between demographic characteristics, health, child adversity, and job-related factors and outcomes of BO, CF, and compassion satisfaction (CS). What this study adds? Anxiety was significantly and positively associated with BO and CF. Job satisfaction was inversely associated with CF. Satisfaction with operating conditions was inversely correlated with BO and CF, suggesting that interventions that address organizational-level operating procedures may reduce risk of BO and CF in home visitors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To explore sociodemographic predictors for concern regarding COVID‐19 transmission and how these factors interact with the identities of others, we conducted a web‐based survey where we asked 568 respondents in the United States to indicate their level of COVID‐19 concern in response to a series of images with short vignettes of masked and unmasked individuals of different racial/ethnic backgrounds. Using a linear mixed effects model, we found that regardless of the race of the image being presented in the vignette, concern regarding COVID‐19 transmission was associated with respondents' older age (b = 0.029, p < 0.001), residing in NYC (b = 0.556, p = 0.009), being heterosexual (b = 1.075, p < 0.001), having higher levels of education, that is, completion of a Bachelor's degree (b = 1.10, p = 0.033) or graduate degree (b = 1.78, p < 0.001), and the person in the vignette being unmasked (b = 0.822, p < 0.001). Asian respondents were more likely than White respondents to be concerned regarding COVID‐19. Individuals who self‐reported themselves to be at high risk for COVID‐19 were more likely to be concerned about COVID‐19 over those who considered themselves to be low risk. These findings highlight the importance of acknowledging interactions between race, mask status, and residency in predicting COVID‐19 concern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our cross-sectional study seeks to understand how COVID-19 stigma, race/ethnicity [Asian, Black, Hispanic/Latinx, white] and residency [New York City (NYC) resident vs. non-NYC resident] associated with depression. Our sample includes 568 participants: 260 (45.77%) were NYC residents and 308 (54.3%) were non-NYC residents. A series of multiple linear regression were run to examine the relationship between race/ethnicity, COVID-19 stigma, and depressive symptoms. Irrespective of residency, older age and ever being diagnosed with COVID-19 were negatively associated with depressive symptoms. Stigma and thinking less of oneself significantly associates with depressive symptoms across residency. Our study expects to benefit mental health care providers and public health professionals in designing best practices to mitigate stigma in ongoing or future pandemics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examined predictors to mask mandate support and racial justice protest participation across Asian (n = 103), Black (n = 102), white (n = 102) New York City residents, using binary logistic regressions. Participants with positive feelings about the racial justice movement were more likely to participate in the protests. White and Asian respondents were more likely to support the mask mandates over Black respondents. Asian respondents were less likely to participate in public protests over white respondents. Our findings offer a model for social workers to understand how race, political participation and COVID-19 intersect to create racially just responses to health and justice matters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]