{"id":595,"date":"2020-08-28T09:29:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T16:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=595"},"modified":"2020-09-03T09:30:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T16:30:21","slug":"fear-and-avoidance-of-healthcare-workers-an-important-under-recognized-form-of-stigmatization-during-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/28\/fear-and-avoidance-of-healthcare-workers-an-important-under-recognized-form-of-stigmatization-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear and Avoidance of Healthcare Workers: An Important, under-Recognized Form of Stigmatization during the COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>An online survey of a random sample of adults from the US and Canada who were not healthcare workers (HCWs) (n=3,551) found that over a quarter of respondents believed that restrictions should placed on HCWs, such as being isolated from their communities and families, and over a third of respondents avoided HCWs for fear of infection. Demographic factors were not associated with HCW stigmatization, while variables related to COVID-19 Stress Syndrome had a stronger association.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Taylor et al. (Aug 19, 2020). Fear and Avoidance of Healthcare Workers: An Important, under-Recognized Form of Stigmatization during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.janxdis.2020.102289\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.janxdis.2020.102289<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An online survey of a random sample of adults from the US and Canada who were not healthcare workers (HCWs) (n=3,551) found that over a quarter of respondents believed that restrictions should placed on HCWs, such as being isolated from their communities and families, and over a third of respondents avoided HCWs for fear of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/28\/fear-and-avoidance-of-healthcare-workers-an-important-under-recognized-form-of-stigmatization-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[55,44],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-health-care-workers","tag-mental-health-personal-impact","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}