COVID-19 related stigma among the general population in Iran

• Main Authors: Masoomeh Faghankhani (Author), Hossein Nourinia (Author), Ali Ahmad Rafiei-Rad (Author), Aliyeh Mahdavi Adeli (Author), Mohammad Reza Javadi Yeganeh (Author), Hamid Sharifi (Author), Hamidreza Namazi (Author), Shaghayegh Khosravifar (Author), Alaleh Bahramian (Author), Mahdi Fathimakvand (Author), Elnaz Golalipour (Author), Fatemeh Sadat Mirfazeli (Author), Hamid Reza Baradaran (Author), Graham Thornicroft (Author), Amir Hossein Jalali Nadoushan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background COVID-19 related stigma has been identified as a critical issue since the beginning of the pandemic. We developed a valid and reliable questionnaire to measure COVID-19 related enacted stigma, inflicted by the non-infected general population. We applied the questionnaire to measu...