Systematic Review of Scales for Measuring Infectious Disease-Related Stigma

Infectious disease outbreaks are associated with substantial stigma, which can have negative effects on affected persons and communities and on outbreak control. Thus, measuring stigma in a standardized and validated manner early in an outbreak is critical to disease control. We reviewed existing scales used to assess stigma during outbreaks. Our findings show that many different scales have been developed, but few have been used more than once, have been adequately validated, or have been tested in different disease and geographic contexts. We found that scales were usually developed too slowly to be informative early during an outbreak and were published a median of 2 years after the first case of an outbreak. A rigorously developed, transferable stigma scale is needed to assess and direct responses to stigma during infectious disease outbreaks.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:30

Enthalten in:

Emerging infectious diseases - 30(2024), 3 vom: 15. März, Seite 519-529

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Paterson, Amy [VerfasserIn]
Cheyne, Ashleigh [VerfasserIn]
Jones, Benjamin [VerfasserIn]
Schilling, Stefan [VerfasserIn]
Sigfrid, Louise [VerfasserIn]
Stolow, Jeni [VerfasserIn]
Moses, Lina [VerfasserIn]
Olliaro, Piero [VerfasserIn]
Rojek, Amanda [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Case Reports
Communicable diseases
Disease outbreaks
Ebola virus
Epidemics
HIV/AIDS and other retroviruses
Journal Article
Prejudice
Social discrimination
Social marginalization
Social stigma
Systematic Review

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Date Completed 27.02.2024

Date Revised 02.03.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3201/eid3003.230934

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM368972046