Note: This work was previously presented as
“Mental
Health Assessment of Youth with Sickle Cell Disease and Their Primary
Caretakers: Baseline Depression and COVID-19 Pandemic-Associated
Psychosocial Stress in a Multi-Site Study” at the December 2020
meeting of the American Society of Hematology, Blood (2020) 136
(Supplement 1): 41–42
(doi.org/10.1182/blood-2020-140866).
Acknowledgements :
This work was funded by 1R01NR017206 (Green, Smaldone)
We acknowledge the expertise of Andrew Rundles, DrPH and James W. Quinn
at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health for calculating the
Social Vulnerability Index of this sample. We thank the patients with
SCD and their caregivers who participated in the HABIT Trial and these
surveys, as well as the study staff at each participating study site.
Conflict of Interest Statement : The authors have no relevant
conflicts to disclose.