| Autor: |
Tulsi Adhikari, Sumit Aggarwal, Saritha Nair, Aparna Joshi, Vishal Diwan, A. Stephen, K. Rekha Devi, Bijaya Kumar Mishra, Girijesh Kumar Yadav, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Damodar Sahu, Jeetendra Yadav, Senthanro Ovung, Bal Kishan Gulati, Saurabh Sharma, Charan Singh, Chetna Duggal, Moina Sharma, Dhammasagar Ujagare, Sneha Padmakar Chinchore, Pricilla B. Rebecca, S. Rani, Pradeep Selvaraj, Gladston G. Xavier, Vanessa Peter, Basilea Watson, T. Kannan, K. S. Md. Asmathulla, Debdutta Bhattacharya, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Subrata Kumar Palo, Srikanta Kanungo, Ajit Kumar Behera, Ashok Kumar Pandey, Kamran Zaman, Brij Ranjan Misra, Niraj Kumar, Sthita Pragnya Behera, Rajeev Singh, Kanwar Narain, Rajni Kant, Seema Sahay, Rajnarayan R. Tiwari, Beena Elizabeth Thomas, M. Vishnu Vardhana Rao |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2022 |
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| Zdroj: |
Frontiers in Public Health, Vol 10 (2022) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2296-2565 |
| DOI: |
10.3389/fpubh.2022.992046 |
| Popis: |
ObjectiveTo assess factors associated with COVID-19 stigmatizing attitudes in the community and stigma experiences of COVID-19 recovered individuals during first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in India.MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted in 18 districts located in 7 States in India during September 2020 to January 2021 among adults > 18 years of age selected through systematic random sampling. Data on socio demographic and COVID-19 knowledge were collected from 303 COVID-19 recovered and 1,976 non-COVID-19 infected individuals from community using a survey questionnaire. Stigma was assessed using COVID-19 Stigma Scale and Community COVID-19 Stigma Scale developed for the study. Informed consent was sought from the participants. Univariate and multivariate binary logistic regression analysis were conducted.ResultsHalf of the participants (51.3%) from the community reported prevalence of severe stigmatizing attitudes toward COVID-19 infected while 38.6% of COVID-19 recovered participants reported experiencing severe stigma. Participants from the community were more likely to report stigmatizing attitudes toward COVID-19 infected if they were residents of high prevalent COVID-19 zone (AOR: 1.5; CI: 1.2–1.9), staying in rural areas (AOR: 1.5; CI:1.1–1.9), belonged to the age group of 18–30 years (AOR: 1.6; CI 1.2–2.0), were male (AOR: 1.6; CI: 1.3–1.9), illiterate (AOR: 2.7; CI: 1.8–4.2), or living in Maharashtra (AOR: 7.4; CI: 4.8–11.3). COVID-19 recovered participants had higher odds of experiencing stigma if they had poor knowledge about COVID-19 transmission (AOR: 2.8; CI: 1.3–6.3), were staying for 6–15 years (AOR: 3.24; CI: 1.1–9.4) in the current place of residence or belonged to Delhi (AOR: 5.3; CI: 1.04–26.7).ConclusionFindings indicated presence of stigmatizing attitudes in the community as well as experienced stigma among COVID-19 recovered across selected study sites in India during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic. Study recommends timely dissemination of factual information to populations vulnerable to misinformation and psychosocial interventions for individuals affected by stigma. |
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