Timothy Dye|Lisette Alcántara|Shazia Siddiqi|Monica Barbosu|Saloni Sharma|Tiffany Panko|Eva K. Pressman
Risk of COVID-19-related bullying, harassment and stigma among healthcare workers: an analytical cross-sectional global study
University of Rochester|University of Rochester|University of Rochester|University of Rochester|University of Rochester|University of Rochester|University of Rochester
essential healthcare workers hcw uniquely serve covid19 healers potentially carriers sarscov2 assessed covid19related stigma bullying hcw controlling social psychological medical community variableswe nested analytical crosssectional study covid19related stigma bullying among hcw within larger mixedmethods effort assessing covid19related lived experience impact adjusted aor 95 cis evaluated association working healthcare settings experience covid19related bullying stigma controlling confounders thematic qualitative analysis provided insight lived experience covid19related bullyingwe recruited potential participants four languages english spanish french italian amazon mechanical turks online workforce facebookour sample included 7411 people 173 countries aged 18 years overhcw significantly experienced covid19related bullying controlling confounding effects jobrelated personal geographic sociocultural variables aor 15 95 ci 12 20 hcw frequently believed people gossip others covid19 22 95 ci 19 26 people covid19 lose respect community 23 95 ci 20 27 elevate bullying risk 27 95 ci 23 32 35 95 ci 29 42 respectively lived experience covid19related bullying relates frequently public identities hcw traverse community intersecting domains eg police racism violenceafter controlling range confounding factors hcw significantly likely experience covid19related stigma bullying often intersectional context racism violence police involvement community settings