Year: 2024
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was established to enforce voting rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments. Unfortunately, Blacks faced additional barriers when attempting to exercise their right to vote. Moreover, focusing on voting specifically among adults living with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), we assessed voter participation as a form of advocacy to evaluate if political involvement was related to psychological status. We found that 72% of adults with SCD in our sample routinely voted in government elections. We examined psychological symptoms using the Symptom Checklist -90 (SCL-90-R). Voters consistently presented with better psychological status than nonvoters. Voters reported significantly lower levels of interpersonal sensitivity, anxiety, specific phobia, and psychosis than nonvoters (p<.05). We interpret our findings as a non-characterological and non-volitional explanation for political participation among adults with SCD.
Source: Journal of Clinical Haematology
Authors: Jessica Miller, Camela S. Barker, Mary Wood, Brianna Jones, Tierra Arnold, Birchie Warren, Samanta Beavers, Erika N. Cubilete, Raven Brooks, Oneika Thompson, Jazmin Rosales, Alyssa Delts-Robinson, Serenia Fulcher, Montavia M. Brooks, Cypress Booker, Rani Haddock, Malik Muhammad, Elaine Whitworth, William Jeff Bryson, Wandy Morel Cubilete, Elaine O’Neal, Recardo T. Kersey, Sarah Reives, John J. Sollers, III, Jasmine Benner, Goldie S. Byrd, Tanisha Burford, Brenda Howerton, George Cliette, Zack Forde-Hawkins, Courtney Munroe, Jr., Dana Jones, Jonathan Livingston, Shiv Sudhakar, John Sollers, IV, Grace Donahue, Candice Alick, Debra O. Parker, Richard Boorzt-Marx, Christopher L. Edwards
Language: English
Subfield: Genetics
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4401768002