Associations between COVID-19 related stigma and sleep quality among COVID-19 survivors six months after hospital discharge

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BACKGROUND: Many COVID-19 survivors reported stigmatization after recovery. This study investigated the association between stigma (discrimination experiences, self-stigma and perceived affiliate stigma) and sleep quality among COVID-19 survivors six months after hospital discharge.

METHODS: Participants were recovered adult COVID-19 survivors discharged between February 1 and April 30, 2020. Medical staff of five participating hospitals approached all discharged COVID-19 period during this period. A total of 199 participants completed the telephone interview during July to September, 2020. Structural equation modeling was performed to test the hypothesize that resilience and social support would mediate the associations between stigma and sleep quality.

RESULTS: The results showed that 10.1% of the participants reported terrible/poor sleep quality, 26.1% reported worse sleep quality in the past week when comparing their current status versus the time before COVID-19. After adjusting for significant background characteristics, participants who had higher number of discrimination experience, perceived stronger self-stigma and stronger perceived affiliate stigma reported poorer sleep quality. Resilience and social support were positively and significantly associated with sleep quality. The indirect effect of self-stigma on sleep quality through social support and resilience was significant and negative. Perceived affiliate stigma also had a significant and negative indirect effect on sleep quality through social support and resilience.

CONCLUSIONS: Various types of stigma after recovery were associated with poor sleep quality among COVID-19 survivors, while social support and resilience were protective factors. Resilience and social support mediated the associations between self-stigma/perceived affiliate stigma and sleep quality.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:91

Enthalten in:

Sleep medicine - 91(2022) vom: 11. März, Seite 273-281

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Fu, Leiwen [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Bingyi [VerfasserIn]
Chan, Paul Shing Fong [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Dan [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Weiran [VerfasserIn]
Ju, Niu [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Yuqing [VerfasserIn]
Xiao, Xin [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Hui [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Xue [VerfasserIn]
Fang, Yuan [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Zhijie [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Ping [VerfasserIn]
He, Jiaoling [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Hongqiong [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Huiwen [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Dixi [VerfasserIn]
Hong, Zhongsi [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Xiaojun [VerfasserIn]
Hao, Yanrong [VerfasserIn]
Cai, Lianying [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Jianrong [VerfasserIn]
Yuan, Jianhui [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Yao-Qing [VerfasserIn]
Xiao, Fei [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Zixin [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Shupei [VerfasserIn]
Zou, Huachun [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19 survivors
China
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Resilience
Sleep quality
Social support
Stigma

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Date Completed 26.04.2022

Date Revised 07.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.sleep.2021.10.020

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM333402162