Factors associated with stigma and manifestations experienced by Indian health care workers involved in COVID-19 management in India: A qualitative study
Healthcare personnel who deal with COVID-19 experience stigma. There is a lack of national-level representative qualitative data to study COVID-19-related stigma among healthcare workers in India. The present study explores factors associated with stigma and manifestations experienced by Indian heal...
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| author | Ashoo Grover U Venkatesh Jugal Kishore Tapas Chakma Beena Thomas Geetha Menon Murugesan Periyasamy Ragini Kulkarni Ranjan K Prusty Chitra Venkateswaran Bijaya Mishra Vinoth Balu Maribon Viray Geetu Mathew Asha Ketharam Rakesh Balachandar Prashant Singh Kiran Jakhar Rekha Devi Kalyan Saha Pradeep Barde Rony Moral Ravinder Singh Denny John Jeetendra Yadav Simran Kohli Sumit Aggarwal Vishnu Rao Samiran Panda |
| author_facet | Ashoo Grover U Venkatesh Jugal Kishore Tapas Chakma Beena Thomas Geetha Menon Murugesan Periyasamy Ragini Kulkarni Ranjan K Prusty Chitra Venkateswaran Bijaya Mishra Vinoth Balu Maribon Viray Geetu Mathew Asha Ketharam Rakesh Balachandar Prashant Singh Kiran Jakhar Rekha Devi Kalyan Saha Pradeep Barde Rony Moral Ravinder Singh Denny John Jeetendra Yadav Simran Kohli Sumit Aggarwal Vishnu Rao Samiran Panda |
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| description | Healthcare personnel who deal with COVID-19 experience stigma. There is a lack of national-level representative qualitative data to study COVID-19-related stigma among healthcare workers in India. The present study explores factors associated with stigma and manifestations experienced by Indian healthcare workers involved in COVID-19 management. We conducted in-depth interviews across 10 centres in India, which were analysed using NVivo software version 12. Thematic and sentiment analysis was performed to gain deep insights into the complex phenomenon by categorising the qualitative data into meaningful and related categories. Healthcare workers (HCW) usually addressed the stigma they encountered when doing their COVID duties under the superordinate theme of stigma. Among them, 77.42% said they had been stigmatised in some way. Analyses revealed seven interrelated themes surrounding stigma among healthcare workers. It can be seen that the majority of the stigma and coping sentiments fall into the mixed category, followed by the negative sentiment category. This study contributes to our understanding of stigma and discrimination in low- and middle-income settings. Our data show that the emergence of fear of the virus has quickly turned into a stigma against healthcare workers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d8f1ae91521f4f89b86887c57c399d492023-08-23T09:22:48ZengCambridge University PressCambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health2054-42512023-01-011010.1017/gmh.2023.40Factors associated with stigma and manifestations experienced by Indian health care workers involved in COVID-19 management in India: A qualitative studyAshoo Grover0U Venkatesh1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8059-9364Jugal Kishore2Tapas Chakma3Beena Thomas4Geetha Menon5Murugesan Periyasamy6Ragini Kulkarni7Ranjan K Prusty8Chitra Venkateswaran9Bijaya Mishra10Vinoth Balu11Maribon Viray12Geetu Mathew13Asha Ketharam14Rakesh Balachandar15Prashant Singh16Kiran Jakhar17Rekha Devi18Kalyan Saha19Pradeep Barde20Rony Moral21Ravinder Singh22Denny John23Jeetendra Yadav24Simran Kohli25Sumit Aggarwal26Vishnu Rao27Samiran Panda28https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5077-6275Division of Non-Communicable Diseases, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, IndiaDepartment of Community & Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Gorakhpur, IndiaDepartment of Community Medicine, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, IndiaDivision of Non-Communicable Diseases, ICMR-National Institute of Research in Tribal Health, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, IndiaDepartment of Social and Behavioural Research, ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, IndiaICMR-National Institute of Medical Statistics, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, IndiaDepartment of Social and Behavioural Research, ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, IndiaDepartment of Operational Research, ICMR-National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, Mumbai, IndiaDepartment of Biostatistics, ICMR-National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, Mumbai, IndiaDepartment of Psychiatry, Believers Church Medical College, Tiruvalla, Kerala, IndiaDepartment of Clinical Research, ICMR-Regional Medical Research Centre, Bhubaneswar, IndiaDepartment of Social and Behavioural Research, ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, IndiaDepartment of Psychology, Department of Counselling Psychology Martin, Luther Christian University, Shillong, Meghalaya, IndiaICMR- Regional Occupational Health Centre -South, National Institute of Occupational Health, Bangalore, IndiaDivision of Clinical Epidemiology, ICMR-National Institute of Occupational Health, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, IndiaDivision of Clinical Epidemiology, ICMR-National Institute of Occupational Health, Ahmedabad, IndiaDivision of Preventive Oncology and Population Health, ICMR-National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaDepartment of Psychaitry, Government Institute of Medical Sciences, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaICMR-Regional Medical Research Centre, N. E. Region, Dibrugarh, IndiaSocial Sciences and Ethnomedicine, ICMR-National Institute of Research in Tribal Health, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, IndiaDivision of Virology and Zoonotic Diseases, ICMR-National Institute of Research In Tribal Health, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, IndiaDepartment of Social and Behavioural Research, ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, IndiaDivision of Non-Communicable Diseases, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, IndiaAmrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre, Kochi, Kerala, IndiaICMR-National Institute of Medical Statistics, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, IndiaICMR-National Institute of Medical Statistics, New Delhi, IndiaDivision of Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases, ICMR, New Delhi, IndiaICMR-National Institute of Medical Statistics, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, IndiaDivision of Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases, ICMR, New Delhi, IndiaHealthcare personnel who deal with COVID-19 experience stigma. There is a lack of national-level representative qualitative data to study COVID-19-related stigma among healthcare workers in India. The present study explores factors associated with stigma and manifestations experienced by Indian healthcare workers involved in COVID-19 management. We conducted in-depth interviews across 10 centres in India, which were analysed using NVivo software version 12. Thematic and sentiment analysis was performed to gain deep insights into the complex phenomenon by categorising the qualitative data into meaningful and related categories. Healthcare workers (HCW) usually addressed the stigma they encountered when doing their COVID duties under the superordinate theme of stigma. Among them, 77.42% said they had been stigmatised in some way. Analyses revealed seven interrelated themes surrounding stigma among healthcare workers. It can be seen that the majority of the stigma and coping sentiments fall into the mixed category, followed by the negative sentiment category. This study contributes to our understanding of stigma and discrimination in low- and middle-income settings. Our data show that the emergence of fear of the virus has quickly turned into a stigma against healthcare workers.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2054425123000407/type/journal_articlestigmadiscriminationhealthcare worksCOVID-19 management |
| spellingShingle | Ashoo Grover U Venkatesh Jugal Kishore Tapas Chakma Beena Thomas Geetha Menon Murugesan Periyasamy Ragini Kulkarni Ranjan K Prusty Chitra Venkateswaran Bijaya Mishra Vinoth Balu Maribon Viray Geetu Mathew Asha Ketharam Rakesh Balachandar Prashant Singh Kiran Jakhar Rekha Devi Kalyan Saha Pradeep Barde Rony Moral Ravinder Singh Denny John Jeetendra Yadav Simran Kohli Sumit Aggarwal Vishnu Rao Samiran Panda Factors associated with stigma and manifestations experienced by Indian health care workers involved in COVID-19 management in India: A qualitative study Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health stigma discrimination healthcare works COVID-19 management |
| title | Factors associated with stigma and manifestations experienced by Indian health care workers involved in COVID-19 management in India: A qualitative study |
| title_full | Factors associated with stigma and manifestations experienced by Indian health care workers involved in COVID-19 management in India: A qualitative study |
| title_fullStr | Factors associated with stigma and manifestations experienced by Indian health care workers involved in COVID-19 management in India: A qualitative study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Factors associated with stigma and manifestations experienced by Indian health care workers involved in COVID-19 management in India: A qualitative study |
| title_short | Factors associated with stigma and manifestations experienced by Indian health care workers involved in COVID-19 management in India: A qualitative study |
| title_sort | factors associated with stigma and manifestations experienced by indian health care workers involved in covid 19 management in india a qualitative study |
| topic | stigma discrimination healthcare works COVID-19 management |
| url | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2054425123000407/type/journal_article |
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