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.