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Experiences of stigma, discrimination and violence and their impact on the mental health of health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- "I Was Embarrassed to Go and See a Counsellor": Stigma Experienced by Individuals Diagnosed with Mental Illness (A Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Pooled it
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- An Overview of Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
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- Navigating dual crises: mental health of Czech health care workers during the Ukrainian refugee influx and COVID-19 pandemic.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Social Stigma Associated with COVID-19 in Healthcare Workers: A Concept Analysis.Journal of caring sciences · 2025Review
- Predicting factors associated with anxiety by patients undergoing treatment for infectious diseases using a random-forest machine learning approach.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Psychological distress in health care workers during the beginning, the middle, and the last part of the COVID-19 pandemic.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Comparative study of stigma and discrimination among vaccinated and non-vaccinated COVID-19 survivors in Bangladesh.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Mental health of health care workers during and after the COVID-19 pandemic - A longitudinal cohort study.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
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- Tracking Workplace Violence over 20 Years.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
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Health care workers have been exposed to COVID-19 more than people in other professions, which may have led to stigmatization, discrimination, and violence toward them, possibly impacting their mental health. We investigated (1) factors associated with stigma, discrimination, and violence, (2) the association of stigma, discrimination, and violence with mental health, (3) everyday experiences of stigmatization, discrimination, and violence. We chose a combination of a quantitative approach and qualitative content analysis to analyze data collected at three time points: in 2020, 2021 and 2022. A higher age was associated with lower odds of experiencing stigma, discrimination, and violence, whereas female gender was related to more negative experiences. The intensity of exposure to COVID-19 was associated with greater experience with stigmatization, discrimination, and violence across all three years (for example in 2022: odds ratio, 95% confidence interval: 1.74, 1.18-2.55 for mild exposure; 2.82, 1.95-4.09 for moderate exposure; and 5.74, 3.55-9.26 for severe exposure, when compared to no exposure). Stigma, discrimination, and violence were most strongly associated with psychological distress in 2020 (odds ratio = 2.97, 95% confidence interval 2.27-3.88) and with depressive symptoms in 2021 (odds ratio = 2.78, 95% confidence interval 2.12-3.64). Attention should be given to the destigmatization of contagious diseases and the prevention of discrimination, violence, and mental health problems, both within workplaces and among the public.
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