Table 4.
Multiple Regression Analyses of Predictors of COVID-19 Stigma
| Negative Attitudes toward people with COVID-19 (n=281) | Perceived Community Stigma faced by people with COVID-19 (n=273) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimate (95% CI) | p-value* | Estimate (95% CI) | p-value* | |||||
| Conceptually Related Constructs | ||||||||
| Anticipated stigma around COVID-19 testing | 0.24 (0.17, 0.31) | <0.001 | 0.20 (0.117, 0.277) | <0.001 | ||||
| Daily discrimination | − | 0.09 (0.019, 0.17) | 0.015 | |||||
| Lifetime discrimination | − | − | ||||||
| Number of COVID-19 related challenges | − | 0.21 (−0.04, 0.462) | 0.099 | |||||
| Socio-demographics | ||||||||
| Age | 0.03 (0.01, 0.05) | 0.011 | −0.01 (−0.04, 0.02) | 0.513 | ||||
| Female sex (ref=male) | −0.71 (−1.42, −0.00) | 0.049 | 0.12 (−0.72, 0.96) | 0.780 | ||||
| Rarely/never attend religious services (ref=monthly or more) | −0.39 (−1.14, 0.36) | 0.311 | −0.98 (−1.86, −0.09) | 0.030 | ||||
| Political affiliation strong democrat (ref=all other) | 0.08 (−0.58, 0.74) | 0.810 | −0.26 (−1.05, 0.53) | 0.519 | ||||
| Essential worker (ref=no) | −0.52 (−1.27, 0.24) | 0.180 | −0.32 (−1.22, 0.58) | 0.485 | ||||
| Urban residence (ref=rural) | 0.36 (−0.48, 1.20) | 0.396 | 0.48 (−0.53, 1.50) | 0.349 | ||||
*
Boldface indicates statistical significance