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COMPASS Brief Report

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Read and share an organized overview of the findings from various publications based on the COMPASS study.

Our Purpose

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Welcome to COMPASS!
COMPASS stands for “COVID-19 Effects on the Mental and Physical Health of Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders Survey Study (COMPASS)". This study is conducted in collaboration with multiple academic institutions and community partners that serve diverse AAPIs. These include University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), University of California, Davis (UCD), International Children Assistance Network (ICAN), National Asian Pacific Center on Aging (NAPCA), Philip Jaisohn Memorial Foundation, Chinese Community Center, Hmong Community Center of Minnesota, Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center, United Sikhs, Memory and Aging Center at UCSF, EPATT, Yu-Ai Kai, India Community Center, and the American Samoa Community Cancer Coalition (ASCCC).

The goal of "COMPASS" is to assess the effects of COVID-19 on Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders health, healthcare access, caregiving, discrimination experience, employment/income, and social support and coping strategies (e.g., technology use). 

With your participation, COMPASS will help to inform future policies, programs and additional research that can alleviate the adverse effects of COVID-19 for Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders.
 
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News & Resources

COVID-19 CDC Website

COVID DATA TRACKER

World Health Organization (WHO): COVID-19 Pandemic

Learn about COVID-19 in your language: 中文/한국어/Tiếng Việt/Sāmoa

Report Vaccine Access Problems via Asian American Voice

If you are interested in participating in additional research or surveys related to Asian American health and Pacific Islanders health, please consider joining the CARE Registry (https://careregistry.ucsf.edu).  The COMPASS study is conducted as part of the CARE Registry, which is part of a larger effort to engage and represent Asian American and Pacific Islander adults in research.

Consider signing up for the CARE Registry's monthly newsletter (scroll down to the bottom of the webpage or email: ([email protected]). The newsletter will serve as an additional source of information to inform you about research and educational events for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.  You don't have to be enrolled in CARE Registry to subscribe to this newsletter.

May 16, 2022

CARE, COMPASS, and ACAD Joint Statement on the Recent Mass Shootings (May 16, 2022)

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January 14, 2022

Discrimination Experiences during COVID-19 among a National, Multi-Lingual, Community-Based Sample of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: COMPASS Findings

Reports of escalated discrimination among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) due to COVID-19 are alarming, making this a public health priority. However, there are limited empirical studies on the scope and impact of COVID-19-related discrimination among AAPIs. Using the COVID-19 Effects on the Mental and Physical Health of AAPI Survey Study (COMPASS) data, we examined the prevalence of, and factors associated with discrimination experiences attributable to being an AAPI during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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July 9, 2021

Vaccine willingness: Findings from the COVID-19 effects on the mental and physical health of Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders survey study (COMPASS)

We used data from a national, cross-sectional, community-based survey called COVID-19 Effects on the Mental and Physical Health of AAPI Survey Study (COMPASS), an ongoing survey study that is available in English and Asian languages (i.e., Simplified or Traditional Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese) to examine vaccine willingness among AAPI.

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April 14, 2021

Differences in COVID-19 Vaccine Concerns Among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: The COMPASS Survey

Understanding concerns for receiving COVID-19 vaccines is key to ensuring appropriately tailored health communications to increase vaccine uptake. However, limited data exists about vaccine concerns among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI).

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March 29, 2021

Jayapal and Asian leaders condemn racist violence and discrimination

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the Democrat whose district includes UW Seattle, recently condemned anti-Asian hate and structural racism in the aftermath of the March 16 shootings at Atlanta-area spas and the growing wave of anti-Asian discrimination during the coronavirus pandemic in an online press conference on Friday.

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January 26, 2021

CARE's & COMPASS' Statement on President Biden's Executive Order on Racial Equity

President Biden issued an Executive Order on January 26, 2021 that condemns and denounces racism, xenophobia, and intolerance against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI).

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October 20, 2020

Asian Americans in San Francisco are dying at alarming rates from COVID-19: Racism is to blame

COVID-19 is killing Asian Americans in the Bay Area. In this six-part series, USA TODAY investigates how systemic racism is driving high death rates.

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