Cassiani-Miranda Carlos Arturo, Campo-Arias Adalberto, Tirado-Otálvaro Andrés Felipe, Botero-Tobón Luz Adriana, Upegui-Arango Luz Dary, Rodríguez-Verdugo María Soledad, Botero-Tobón María Elena, Arismendy-López Yinneth Andrea, Robles-Fonnegra William Alberto, Niño Levinson, Scoppetta Orlando
Faculty of Health Sciences, Medicine Program, UDES Neuroscience Research Group Universidad de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
International Network for Stigma Reduction (RED_ESTIGMA).
Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2021 Sep;67(6):728-736. doi: 10.1177/0020764020972445. Epub 2020 Nov 8.
As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, the fear of infection increases and, with it, the stigma-discrimination, which makes it an additional problem of the epidemic. However, studies about stigma associated with coronavirus are scarce worldwide.
To determine the association between stigmatisation and fear of COVID-19 in the general population of Colombia.
A cross-sectional study was carried out. A total of 1,687 adults between 18 and 76 years old ( = 36.3; = 12.5), 41.1% health workers, filled out an online questionnaire on Stigma-Discrimination and the COVID-5 Fear Scale, adapted by the research team.
The proportion of high fear of COVID-19 was 34.1%; When comparing the affirmative answers to the questionnaire on stigma-discrimination towards COVID-19, it was found that the difference was significantly higher in the general population compared to health workers in most of the questions evaluated, which indicates a high level of stigmatisation in that group. An association between high fear of COVID-19 and stigma was evidenced in 63.6% of the questions in the questionnaire.
Stigma-discrimination towards COVID-19 is frequent in the Colombian population and is associated with high levels of fear towards said disease, mainly people who are not health workers.
随着新冠疫情的发展，人们对感染的恐惧增加，随之而来的是污名化——歧视，这使其成为该流行病的另一个问题。然而，全球范围内关于与冠状病毒相关污名化的研究很少。
确定哥伦比亚普通人群中污名化与对新冠病毒的恐惧之间的关联。
进行了一项横断面研究。共有1687名年龄在18至76岁之间的成年人（平均年龄=36.3岁；标准差=12.5岁），其中41.1%为医护人员，填写了由研究团队改编的关于污名化-歧视和新冠恐惧量表的在线问卷。
对新冠病毒高度恐惧的比例为34.1%；在比较针对新冠病毒污名化-歧视问卷的肯定回答时，发现在大多数评估问题中，普通人群的差异明显高于医护人员，这表明该群体中污名化程度较高。问卷中63.6%的问题表明对新冠病毒的高度恐惧与污名化之间存在关联。
哥伦比亚人群中对新冠病毒的污名化-歧视很常见，并且与对该疾病的高度恐惧有关，主要是那些非医护人员。
