Risk of COVID-19-related bullying, harassment and stigma among healthcare workers: an analytical cross-sectional global study

Objectives Essential healthcare workers (HCW) uniquely serve as both COVID-19 healers and, potentially, as carriers of SARS-CoV-2. We assessed COVID-19-related stigma and bullying against HCW controlling for social, psychological, medical and community variables.Design We nested an analytical cross-...

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Autores principales:	Timothy D Dye, Lisette Alcantara, Shazia Siddiqi, Monica Barbosu, Saloni Sharma, Tiffany Panko, Eva Pressman
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:4c5dc1ada3704e539bb6098fb2b003d02021-11-22T12:00:06ZRisk of COVID-19-related bullying, harassment and stigma among healthcare workers: an analytical cross-sectional global study10.1136/bmjopen-2020-0466202044-6055https://doaj.org/article/4c5dc1ada3704e539bb6098fb2b003d02020-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/12/e046620.fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/2044-6055Objectives Essential healthcare workers (HCW) uniquely serve as both COVID-19 healers and, potentially, as carriers of SARS-CoV-2. We assessed COVID-19-related stigma and bullying against HCW controlling for social, psychological, medical and community variables.Design We nested an analytical cross-sectional study of COVID-19-related stigma and bullying among HCW within a larger mixed-methods effort assessing COVID-19-related lived experience and impact. Adjusted OR (aOR) and 95% CIs evaluated the association between working in healthcare settings and experience of COVID-19-related bullying and stigma, controlling for confounders. Thematic qualitative analysis provided insight into lived experience of COVID-19-related bullying.Setting We recruited potential participants in four languages (English, Spanish, French, Italian) through Amazon Mechanical Turk’s online workforce and Facebook.Participants Our sample included 7411 people from 173 countries who were aged 18 years or over.Findings HCW significantly experienced more COVID-19-related bullying after controlling for the confounding effects of job-related, personal, geographic and sociocultural variables (aOR: 1.5; 95% CI 1.2 to 2.0). HCW more frequently believed that people gossip about others with COVID-19 (OR: 2.2; 95% CI 1.9 to 2.6) and that people with COVID-19 lose respect in the community (OR: 2.3; 95% CI 2.0 to 2.7), both which elevate bullying risk (OR: 2.7; 95% CI 2.3 to 3.2, and OR: 3.5; 95% CI 2.9 to 4.2, respectively). The lived experience of COVID-19-related bullying relates frequently to public identities as HCW traverse through the community, intersecting with other domains (eg, police, racism, violence).Interpretation After controlling for a range of confounding factors, HCW are significantly more likely to experience COVID-19-related stigma and bullying, often in the intersectional context of racism, violence and police involvement in community settings.Timothy D DyeLisette AlcantaraShazia SiddiqiMonica BarbosuSaloni SharmaTiffany PankoEva PressmanBMJ Publishing GrouparticleMedicineRENBMJ Open, Vol 10, Iss 12 (2020)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Timothy D Dye Lisette Alcantara Shazia Siddiqi Monica Barbosu Saloni Sharma Tiffany Panko Eva Pressman Risk of COVID-19-related bullying, harassment and stigma among healthcare workers: an analytical cross-sectional global study
description	Objectives Essential healthcare workers (HCW) uniquely serve as both COVID-19 healers and, potentially, as carriers of SARS-CoV-2. We assessed COVID-19-related stigma and bullying against HCW controlling for social, psychological, medical and community variables.Design We nested an analytical cross-sectional study of COVID-19-related stigma and bullying among HCW within a larger mixed-methods effort assessing COVID-19-related lived experience and impact. Adjusted OR (aOR) and 95% CIs evaluated the association between working in healthcare settings and experience of COVID-19-related bullying and stigma, controlling for confounders. Thematic qualitative analysis provided insight into lived experience of COVID-19-related bullying.Setting We recruited potential participants in four languages (English, Spanish, French, Italian) through Amazon Mechanical Turk’s online workforce and Facebook.Participants Our sample included 7411 people from 173 countries who were aged 18 years or over.Findings HCW significantly experienced more COVID-19-related bullying after controlling for the confounding effects of job-related, personal, geographic and sociocultural variables (aOR: 1.5; 95% CI 1.2 to 2.0). HCW more frequently believed that people gossip about others with COVID-19 (OR: 2.2; 95% CI 1.9 to 2.6) and that people with COVID-19 lose respect in the community (OR: 2.3; 95% CI 2.0 to 2.7), both which elevate bullying risk (OR: 2.7; 95% CI 2.3 to 3.2, and OR: 3.5; 95% CI 2.9 to 4.2, respectively). The lived experience of COVID-19-related bullying relates frequently to public identities as HCW traverse through the community, intersecting with other domains (eg, police, racism, violence).Interpretation After controlling for a range of confounding factors, HCW are significantly more likely to experience COVID-19-related stigma and bullying, often in the intersectional context of racism, violence and police involvement in community settings.
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title	Risk of COVID-19-related bullying, harassment and stigma among healthcare workers: an analytical cross-sectional global study
title_short	Risk of COVID-19-related bullying, harassment and stigma among healthcare workers: an analytical cross-sectional global study
title_full	Risk of COVID-19-related bullying, harassment and stigma among healthcare workers: an analytical cross-sectional global study
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Risk of COVID-19-related bullying, harassment and stigma among healthcare workers: an analytical cross-sectional global study

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