Social Stigma

• 

  Subject Areas on Research

  • "At home, no one knows": A qualitative study of retention challenges among women living with HIV in Tanzania. 
  • "Getting to Zero" Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in China: a Review of the HIV Care Continuum. 
  • "I should know better": the roles of relationships, spirituality, disclosure, stigma, and shame for older women living with HIV seeking support in the South. 
  • "It's because I think too much": Perspectives and experiences of adults with hypertension engaged in HIV care in northern Tanzania. 
  • "Let Me Help You Help Me": Church-Based HIV Prevention for Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Men. 
  • "That Guy is Gay and Black. That's a Red Flag." How HIV Stigma and Racism Affect Perception of Risk Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex with Men. 
  • 'I don't need an eye for an eye': Women's responses to intimate partner violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia. 
  • A Mixed-Methods Study: Sex Differences in Experiences of Stigma Associated With Alcoholism and Alcohol Use Disorders Among Injury Patients in Tanzania. 
  • A Qualitative Exploration of the Mental Health and Psychosocial Contexts of HIV-Positive Adolescents in Tanzania. 
  • A Review of the State of the Science of HIV and Stigma: Context, Conceptualization, Measurement, Interventions, Gaps, and Future Priorities. 
  • A counseling intervention to address HIV stigma at entry into antenatal care in Tanzania (Maisha): study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial. 
  • A group-based mental health intervention for Tanzanian youth living with HIV: Secondary analysis of a pilot trial. 
  • A group-based mental health intervention for young people living with HIV in Tanzania: results of a pilot individually randomized group treatment trial. 
  • A randomized controlled trial of the efficacy of a stigma reduction intervention for HIV-infected women in the Deep South. 
  • A service user co-facilitated intervention to reduce mental illness stigma among primary healthcare workers: Utilizing perspectives of family members and caregivers. 
  • A survey of healthcare-seeking practices and related stigma among community- and street-based children in Cambodia. 
  • Acceptability of a group intervention for initiates of antiretroviral therapy in Tanzania. 
  • Adaptive leadership in clinical encounters with women living with HIV. 
  • Adolescents' perceptions of family social status correlate with health and life chances: A twin difference longitudinal cohort study. 
  • Alarm at the Gate-Health and Social Inequalities are Comorbid Conditions of HIV and COVID-19. 
  • Alcohol stigma as it relates to drinking behaviors and perceptions of drink drivers: A mixed method study in Moshi, Tanzania. 
  • Alcohol-Related Risky Behavior Patterns and Their Association With Alcohol Use and Perceived Alcohol Stigma in Moshi, Tanzania. 
  • Are Iraq and Afghanistan veterans using mental health services? New data from a national random-sample survey. 
  • Artificial intelligence and the future of psychiatry: Insights from a global physician survey. 
  • Association between weight bias internalization and metabolic syndrome among treatment-seeking individuals with obesity. 
  • Barriers and Facilitators to the Successful Transition of Adolescents Living with HIV from Pediatric to Adult Care in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Policy Analysis. 
  • Barriers to sexual and reproductive health care among widows in Nepal. 
  • Behavioral health programs in fire service: Surveying access and preferences. 
  • Black Mothers Living With HIV Picture the Social Determinants of Health. 
  • Building resilience: a mental health intervention for Tanzanian youth living with HIV. 
  • Capturing the Social Location of African American Mothers Living With HIV: An Inquiry Into How Social Determinants of Health Are Framed. 
  • Caregiver self-efficacy to talk about sex predicts conversations about HIV transmission risk with perinatally infected young people in Zimbabwe. 
  • Cervical Cancer Stigma in Rural Kenya: What Does HIV Have to Do with It? 
  • Challenges and facilitators of transition from adolescent to adult HIV care among young adults living with HIV in Moshi, Tanzania. 
  • Cholera control and anti-Haitian stigma in the Dominican Republic: from migration policy to lived experience. 
  • Chronic disease stigma, skepticism of the health system, and socio-economic fragility: Qualitative assessment of factors impacting receptiveness to group medical visits and microfinance for non-communicable disease care in rural Kenya. 
  • Collaboration With People With Lived Experience of Mental Illness to Reduce Stigma and Improve Primary Care Services: A Pilot Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Community perspectives of South African adolescents' experiences seeking treatment at local HIV clinics and how such clinics may influence engagement in the HIV treatment cascade: a qualitative study. 
  • Critically Evaluating Youth Body Mass Index Trajectories: Implications for Health Versus Stigma. 
  • Diabetes Technological Revolution: Winners and Losers? 
  • Discrimination, Medical Distrust, Stigma, Depressive Symptoms, Antiretroviral Medication Adherence, Engagement in Care, and Quality of Life Among Women Living With HIV in North Carolina: A Mediated Structural Equation Model. 
  • Do beliefs about depression etiologies influence the type and severity of depression stigma? The case of Arab adolescents. 
  • Ending HIV-related stigma: nursing's opportunity to lead. 
  • Epilepsy beliefs and misconceptions among patient and community samples in Uganda. 
  • Evaluating mental health difficulties and associated outcomes among HIV-positive adolescents in Tanzania. 
  • Exploring patterns and predictors of suicidal ideation among pregnant and postpartum women living with HIV in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. 
  • Feasibility and acceptability of a peer youth led curriculum to improve HIV knowledge in Northern Tanzania: resilience and intervention experience from the perspective of peer leaders. 
  • Feasibility of using an iPod touch device and acceptability of a stigma reduction intervention with HIV-infected women in the Deep South. 
  • Feasibility, safety, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of measurement-based care depression treatment for HIV patients in Bamenda, Cameroon. 
  • From Stigma to Validation: A Qualitative Assessment of a Novel National Program to Improve Retention of Physician-Scientists with Caregiving Responsibilities. 
  • Group cognitive-behavioral treatment for internalized weight stigma: a pilot study. 
  • HIV Stigmatizing Attitudes Among Men Accompanying Their Partners to Antenatal Care in Tanzania: A Mixed-Method Study. 
  • HIV and Sexuality Stigma Reduction Through Engagement in Online Forums: Results from the HealthMPowerment Intervention. 
  • HIV testing behaviors and attitudes among community recruited methamphetamine users in a South African township. 
  • HIV, cancer, and coping: The cumulative burden of a cancer diagnosis among people living with HIV. 
  • HIV-related stigma among an urban sample of persons living with HIV at risk for dropping out of HIV-oriented primary medical care. 
  • HIV/AIDS in the Southern USA: a disproportionate epidemic. 
  • Health system preparedness for integration of mental health services in rural Liberia. 
  • Hypertension Care for People With HIV in Tanzania: Provider Perspectives and Opportunities for Improvement. 
  • Impact of Service User Video Presentations on Explicit and Implicit Stigma toward Mental Illness among Medical Students in Nepal: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Is tuberculosis patients management improved in the integrated TB control model in West China? A survey in Guizhou Province, China. 
  • Low rates of child testing for HIV persist in a high-risk area of East Africa. 
  • Managing Stigma Effectively: What Social Psychology and Social Neuroscience Can Teach Us. 
  • Mapping a Syndemic of Psychosocial Risks During Pregnancy Using Network Analysis. 
  • Modality of Primary HIV Disclosure and Association with Mental Health, Stigma, and Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence in Tanzanian Youth Living with HIV. 
  • Modeling Health Disparities and Outcomes in Disenfranchised Populations. 
  • NIMH Project Accept (HPTN 043): results from in-depth interviews with a longitudinal cohort of community members. 
  • Obesogenic Behavior and Weight-Based Stigma in Popular Children's Movies, 2012 to 2015. 
  • Out of the silos: identifying cross-cutting features of health-related stigma to advance measurement and intervention. 
  • PMTCT Adherence in Pregnant South African Women: The Role of Depression, Social Support, Stigma, and Structural Barriers to Care. 
  • Pass the popcorn: "obesogenic" behaviors and stigma in children's movies. 
  • Pastoral care use among post-9/11 veterans who screen positive for mental health problems. 
  • Patient-Initiated Repackaging of Antiretroviral Therapy, Viral Suppression and Drug Resistance. 
  • Perceived barriers and supports to accessing community-based services for Uganda's pediatric post-surgical population. 
  • Perceived barriers by health care providers for screening and management of excessive alcohol use in an emergency department of a low-income country. 
  • Perceived discrimination and cognitive function in middle-aged and older adults living with HIV in China. 
  • Perceived stigma and its correlates among Asian patients with advanced cancer: A multi-country APPROACH study. 
  • Perceptions of alcohol use among injury patients and their family members in Tanzanian society. 
  • Perfectionism, Power, and Process: What We Must Address to Dismantle Mental Health Stigma in Medical Education. 
  • Personal and Perceived Depression Stigma among Arab Adolescents: Associations with Depression Severity and Personal Characteristics. 
  • Perspectives of healthcare providers, service users, and family members about mental illness stigma in primary care settings: A multi-site qualitative study of seven countries in Africa, Asia, and Europe. 
  • Pilot Outcomes of Maisha: An HIV Stigma Reduction Intervention Developed for Antenatal Care in Tanzania. 
  • Pluralistic and singular causal attributions for epilepsy in Uganda. 
  • Predictors of postpartum HIV care engagement for women enrolled in prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programs in Tanzania. 
  • Proactive community case-finding to facilitate treatment seeking for mental disorders, Nepal. 
  • Problematic alcohol use among fathers in Kenya: Poverty, people, and practices as barriers and facilitators to help acceptance. 
  • Psychological Symptoms and Social Functioning Following Repair of Obstetric Fistula in a Low-Income Setting. 
  • Psychosocial Correlates of Jordanian Adolescents' Help-Seeking Intentions for Depression: Findings From a Nationally Representative School Survey. 
  • Psychosocial challenges facing women living with HIV during the perinatal period in rural Uganda. 
  • Public and personal depression stigma in a rural American female sample. 
  • Public anti-stigma programmes might impove help-seeking. 
  • Racial/ethnic differences in parent-reported barriers to accessing children's health services. 
  • Reducing mental health-related stigma among medical and nursing students in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review. 
  • Reducing mental health-related stigma in primary health care settings in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review. 
  • Reframing Intersectional Stigma for a South African Context Integrating Tuberculosis, HIV and Poverty Stigmas. 
  • Serostatus disclosure to sexual partners among people living with HIV: examining the roles of partner characteristics and stigma. 
  • Sexual Orientation, Religious Coping, and Drug Use in a Sample of HIV-Infected African-American Men Living in the Southern USA. 
  • Social Network Influence on HIV Testing Among Urban Men in Tanzania. 
  • Social and financial barriers may contribute to a "hidden mortality" in Uganda for children with congenital anomalies. 
  • Social history and exposure to pathogen signals modulate social status effects on gene regulation in rhesus macaques. 
  • State of HIV in the US Deep South 
  • Stigma Diminishes the Protective Effect of Social Support on Psychological Distress Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Men. 
  • Stigma Experienced by Children and Adolescents With Obesity. 
  • Stigma against mental health disorders in Nepal conceptualised with a 'what matters most' framework: a scoping review. 
  • Stigma and Mobile App Use Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Men. 
  • Stigma in leprosy: miles to go! 
  • Stigma of Sickle Cell Disease: A Systematic Review. 
  • Stigma reduction interventions for children and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: Systematic review of intervention strategies. 
  • Stigma reduction interventions for epilepsy: A systematized literature review. 
  • Stigma, perceived blame, self-blame, and depressive symptoms in men with colorectal cancer. 
  • Surveying treatment preferences in U.S. Iraq-Afghanistan Veterans with PTSD symptoms: a step toward veteran-centered care. 
  • Systematic review of interventions to reduce mental health stigma in India. 
  • The Disclosure Dilemma: Willingness to Disclose a Positive HIV Status Among Individuals Preparing for HIV Testing During Antenatal Care in Tanzania. 
  • The Invisible US Hispanic/Latino HIV Crisis: Addressing Gaps in the National Response. 
  • The Relationship of HIV-related Stigma and Health Care Outcomes in the US Deep South. 
  • The global need for education on cancer health. 
  • The importance of context in early autism intervention: A qualitative South African study. 
  • The love song of the headless fatty and other observations. 
  • The prevalence and process of pediatric HIV disclosure: A population-based prospective cohort study in Zimbabwe. 
  • The prevalence of perceived stigma and self-blame and their associations with depression, emotional well-being and social well-being among advanced cancer patients: evidence from the APPROACH cross-sectional study in Vietnam. 
  • Treatment Preferences for Pharmacological versus Psychological Interventions among Primary Care Providers in Nepal: Mixed Methods Analysis of a Pilot Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Using an intersectional approach to study the impact of social determinants of health for African American mothers living with HIV. 
  • Voices of Women Facing HIV-Related Stigma in the Deep South. 
  • WIC Recipients in the Retail Environment: A Qualitative Study Assessing Customer Experience and Satisfaction. 
  • Weight Management without Stigma or Harm: A Roundtable Discussion with Childhood Obesity Experts. 
  • Zika Virus (ZIKV), Global Public Health, Disability, and Rehabilitation: Connecting the Dots…. 
  • commentary: COVID-19 and Obesity: Exploring Biologic Vulnerabilities, Structural Disparities, and Weight Stigma. 
• 

  Keywords of People

  • Zafar, Syed Yousuf, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Duke Science & Society