Discrimination and symptoms of obsessive–compulsive disorder among African Americans.

Race, race-based discrimination, and health outcomes among African Americans.

Persistent and vexing health disadvantages accrue to African Americans despite decades of work to erase the effects of race discrimination in this country. Participating in these efforts, psychologists and other social scientists have hypothesized that African Americans' continuing experiences with racism and discrimination may lie at the root of the many well-documented race-based physical hea...

Racial Discrimination in Health Care Among African Americans in America

Obsessivecompulsive symptoms with olanzapine

The emergence or exacerbation of obsessive– compulsive (OC) symptoms during treatment with atypical antipsychotics, mostly clozapine, has been documented by numerous case reports (reviewed by Lykouras et al., 2003). In six recent reports involving nine cases, (Jonkers and deHaan, 2002; Lykouras et al., 2003) olanzapine was found either to cause de novo emergence or to exacerbate OC symptoms. In...

Discrimination, Mastery, and Depressive Symptoms Among African American Men.

PURPOSE This study examines the influence of discrimination and mastery on depressive symptoms for African American men at young (18-34), middle (35-54), and late (55+) adulthood. METHOD Analyses are based on responses from 1,271 African American men from the National Survey of American Life (NSAL). RESULTS Discrimination was significantly related to depressive symptoms for men ages 35 to 5...

Barriers to treatment among African Americans with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

African Americans are underrepresented in OCD treatment centers and less likely to experience a remission of symptoms. This study examines the barriers that prevent African Americans with OCD from receiving treatment. Seventy-one adult African Americans with OCD were recruited and administered the modified Barriers to Treatment Participation Scale (BTPS) and the Barriers to Treatment Questionna...