Reducing stigma and discrimination associated with COVID-19: early stage pandemic rapid review and practical recommendations.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To develop recommendations for strategies and interventions to reduce stigma and discrimination related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), through reviewing and synthesising evidence in relation to COVID-19 and other disease outbreaks and infectious/stigmatised conditions from systematic reviews and primary studies and recommendations from additional materials.

Methods

Rapid review, drawing on the World Health Organization's (WHO) methodology for developing interim guidelines during health emergencies. PubMed/MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Cochrane Central and Campbell Collaboration searched up to mid-April 2020. Searches were supplemented by reference-searching and expert recommendations. Searches were designed to identify: (1) systematic reviews (<10 years), or (2) primary i

SUBMITTER: Gronholm PC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7884669 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature