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Social Stigma: The Hidden Threat of COVID-19

Frontiers in Public Health, 2020
COVID-19 infection has been recognized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Efforts to prevent the spread of the disease are threatened by the appearance of disease-associated social stigma in society. In Egypt, a small wave of stigma directed
A. Abdelhafiz, Mohamed Alorabi
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Social Stigma of COVID-19 Experienced by Frontline Healthcare Workers of Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care of a Tertiary Healthcare Institution in Delhi

Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2021
Background Social stigma is associated with Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) particularly against people who have contracted the disease or have come in contact with it.
Shruti Jain, A. Das, Vandana Talwar, J. Kishore, Heena, U. Ganapathy   +5 more
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Stigma, Social Comparison and Self-Esteem in Adults with an Intellectual Disability [PDF]

, 2012
Background: The paper examines the perception of stigma in 43 adults with an intellectual disability, the relationship this has with their psychological well-being and whether the process of social comparison has a moderating effect on this relationship.
Lindsay, William, McKenzie, Karen, Paterson, Lucy   +2 more
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Stigma in youth with Tourette's syndrome: a systematic review and synthesis [PDF]

, 2015
Tourette's syndrome (TS) is a childhood onset neurodevelopmental disorder, characterised by tics. To our knowledge, no systematic reviews exist which focus on examining the body of literature on stigma in association with children and adolescents with TS.
Forrester-Jones, Rachel, Malli, M., Murphy, Glynis H.   +2 more
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Investigating site-level longitudinal effects of population health interventions: Gay-Straight Alliances and school safety

SSM: Population Health, 2019
There is limited research on evaluating nonrandomized population health interventions. We aimed to introduce a new approach for assessing site-level longitudinal effects of population health interventions (SLEPHI) by innovatively applying multiple group ...
Gu Li, Amery D. Wu, Sheila K. Marshall, Ryan J. Watson, Jones K. Adjei, Minjeong Park, Elizabeth M. Saewyc   +6 more
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The relationship among social support, experienced stigma, psychological distress, and quality of life among tuberculosis patients in China

Scientific Reports, 2021
The complex relationships among social support, experienced stigma, psychological distress, and quality of life (QOL) among tuberculosis (TB) patients are insufficiently understood.
Xu Chen, Jia Xu, Yunting Chen, Ruiheng Wu, Haoqiang Ji, Yuanping Pan, Yuxin Duan, Meng Sun, Liang Du, Mingcheng Gao, Jiawei Wang, Ling Zhou   +11 more
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Crouzon syndrome: a social stigma [PDF]

BMJ Case Reports, 2012
Crouzon syndrome is a rare genetic disorder caused due to genetic mutations. It is characterised by partial hearing loss, dry eyes, strabismus and underdevelopment of the upper jaw with facial deformities and malocclusion. These facial deformities greatly affect the social and emotional development of the affected child.
Rajeev Kumar Singh, Ramesh Kumar Pandey, Naveen Kumar Shah, Neelisha Pandey   +3 more
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Social stigma is an underestimated contributing factor to unemployment in people with mental illness or mental health issues: position paper and future directions

BMC Psychology, 2020
Background As yet, little is known about the effects of mental health stigma on sustainable employment. This is surprising, as mental health stigma is common, and because people with severe and common mental disorders are 7 and 3 times more likely to be ...
E. Brouwers
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Experienced stigma and applied coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: a mixed-methods study

BMJ Open, 2022
Objective Health-related stigma is considered a social determinant of health equity and a hidden burden of disease. This study aimed to assess the level and dimensions of stigma and respective coping mechanisms in COVID-19 survivors.Methods A mixed ...
Lynn Peters, Sanne Burkert, Cecilia Brenner, Beate Grüner   +3 more
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Social Stigma as a Barrier to Covid-19 Responses to Community Well-Being in Bangladesh

International Journal of Community Well-Being, 2020
This commentary looks at the social stigma as a barrier to Covid-19 responses to community well-being in Bangladesh. The Covid-19 in Bangladesh particular the way the people respond this has many dimensions to view from sociological perspective. The main
A. Mahmud, M. Rezaul Islam
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