INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCING STIGMA TOWARD COVID-19: RAPID REVIEW AND PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATION

Abstract

Stigma toward covid-19 was a barrier to handing and treating of covid-19 cases. Need intervention to reducing
impact of stigma toward covid-19. The aim of rapid review was to develop recommendation for interventions to
reduce stigma toward covid-19, through revieweing evidence related to covid-19, or other high infectious disease
outbreak, or stigmatized condition (mental illness) from systematic reviews, primary studies, and recommendation
from additional materials. Methods. Rapid review from database searches Proquest, PubMed, ScienceDirect, and
google schoolar with entering keyword: intervention; reducie; stigma; covid-19. Inclusion criteria of the articles
were: 1) systematic review or primary intervention studies (<10 years), 2) primary studies related to intervention
to reduce stigma toward covid-19, or other infectious disease outbreak, or stigmatized condition (mental illness).
Data were extracted on stigma condition, stigma target, population, intervention, and result. These data were
summarised and presented into table and narrative overview. Result: the searches identified a total of 5.549 articles,
from which we found 9 systematic reviews, and 1 primary studies. Recommendation to reduce stigma toward
covid-19 were focused on : 1) target group, 2) stigma target, 3) intervention, and strategy for implementation.
Conclusions: the effectiveness of stigma intervention toward covid-19 could be reach optimally by choosing the
right interventions based on stigma condition, stigma target, outcome of interventions, and supporting of essensial
elements, like individu, community/ society, and government to reducing impact of stigma toward covid-19