Stigma in COVID-19: A barrier to seek medical care and family support

The new coronavirus pandemic at the end of 2019 raised fear around the world. The rapid spread and relatively higher observed case fatality of this disease compared to other viral respiratory infections, have caused social reactions such as xenophobia and stigma. These negative social attitudes and...

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Autores principales: Asadi-Aliabadi, Mehran, Tehrani-Banihashemi, Arash, Moradi-Lakeh, Maziar
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Iran University of Medical Sciences 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7722951/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33315991
http://dx.doi.org/10.34171/mjiri.34.98
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description The new coronavirus pandemic at the end of 2019 raised fear around the world. The rapid spread and relatively higher observed case fatality of this disease compared to other viral respiratory infections, have caused social reactions such as xenophobia and stigma. These negative social attitudes and acts will affect different segments of the society, such as patients and their families and health care providers. Also, this could disrupt the identification and surveillance of patients and could lead to considerable negative impacts on its control and management.
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spelling pubmed-77229512020-12-10 Stigma in COVID-19: A barrier to seek medical care and family support Asadi-Aliabadi, Mehran Tehrani-Banihashemi, Arash Moradi-Lakeh, Maziar Med J Islam Repub Iran Debate Article The new coronavirus pandemic at the end of 2019 raised fear around the world. The rapid spread and relatively higher observed case fatality of this disease compared to other viral respiratory infections, have caused social reactions such as xenophobia and stigma. These negative social attitudes and acts will affect different segments of the society, such as patients and their families and health care providers. Also, this could disrupt the identification and surveillance of patients and could lead to considerable negative impacts on its control and management. Iran University of Medical Sciences 2020-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7722951/ /pubmed/33315991 http://dx.doi.org/10.34171/mjiri.34.98 Text en © 2020 Iran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 License (CC BY-NC-SA 1.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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