Inter-American Institute

Spirituality Moderates The Relationship of Stress-Linked Psychosocial Factors To Cortisol Homeostasis and Allostatic Load Among Afro-Caribbean Women

AIM: It is hypothesized that a chronic defeat response to social or environmental stressors increases the likelihood of dysfunction of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis with dysregulation of cortisol, accumulation of abdominal fat and development of glucose intoleranc...

Perceived stress in the Hurricane Maria disaster predicts sleep disturbance two years later during the COVID-19 pandemic

This study examined whether stress‑linked sleep disturbance observed during the recovery period (2019) after the disaster caused by Hurricane Maria persisted during the COVID‑19 pandemic (2021) among adults in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. A random subsample of 65 participants...