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Abstract：
Infectious disease outbreaks are associated with substantial stigma, which can have negative effects on affected persons and communities and on outbreak control. Thus, measuring stigma in a standardized and validated manner early in an outbreak is critical to disease control. We reviewed existing scales used to assess stigma during outbreaks. Our findings show that many different scales have been developed, but few have been used more than once, have been adequately validated, or have been tested in different disease and geographic contexts. We found that scales were usually developed too slowly to be informative early during an outbreak and were published a median of 2 years after the first case of an outbreak. A rigorously developed, transferable stigma scale is needed to assess and direct responses to stigma during infectious disease outbreaks.
摘要：
传染病的爆发与严重的耻辱有关，这可能对受影响的人和社区以及疫情控制产生负面影响。因此，在疫情爆发早期以标准化和有效的方式衡量污名对疾病控制至关重要。我们回顾了用于评估疫情期间污名的现有量表。我们的研究结果表明，已经开发了许多不同的尺度，但是很少有人不止一次地使用过，已经得到充分验证，或者已经在不同的疾病和地理环境中进行了测试。我们发现，量表通常在爆发初期发展太慢，无法提供信息，并且在第一例爆发后的中位数为2年。一个严格开发的，需要可转移的污名量表来评估和指导传染病暴发期间对污名的反应。
