Discrimination Of Community Residents And College Students Against People Who Have Recovered From COVID-19 And Its Correlation With Knowledge About COVID-19

Objectives In order to understand the current situation of discrimination against COVID-19 patients by ordinary residents and college students during the new crown pneumonia epidemic;explore the survey respondents’ mastery of COVID-19-related knowledge and the relationship with discrimination against COVID-19 survivors,and further analyze the mediating role of disease fear in the relationship between COVID-19-related knowledge and discrimination against COVID-19 survivors.Provide a data basis for preventing the occurrence of disease discrimination.Methods According to the theoretical framework of disease and stigma,a discrimination scale against people recovering from new coronary pneumonia was compiled.The Pre-investigation selected 90 college students and ordinary residents each,and evaluated the reliability and validity of the scale.In Anhui Province,a total of 1,400 college students and ordinary residents were selected as the survey subjects,and general demographic data,discrimination against new coronary pneumonia patients,new coronary pneumonia-related knowledge,and disease fear were collected through electronic questionnaires;Use software such as SPSS23.0,Excel2010,etc.to analyze the general demographic characteristics of the research object,and use KMO indicators and confirmatory factor analysis to test the reliability and validity of the scale;Linear correlation analysis was adopted for the correlation between the survey respondents’ mastery of knowledge about new coronary pneumonia and the discrimination status of patients recovering from new coronary pneumonia;The mediation effect model is used to test the role of fear of disease in the relationship between the knowledge of new coronary pneumonia and the discrimination of new coronary pneumonia.Result The final effective sample size of the survey was 1,386,of which 574 were males and 812 were females.The Cronbach’α coefficient of the discrimination scale for people recovering from new coronary pneumonia was 0.851,and the aggregation and discrimination validity of the factors were good,GFI=0.924,CFI=0.921,NFI=0.914,RMSEA=0.085,and the model fits well;The Cronbach ’α coefficient of the new coronary pneumonia-related knowledge scale was 0.857.Different types of people had different degrees of discrimination against people who had recovered from new coronary pneumonia,and the difference was statistically significant(F=14.295,P<0.001);After grouping according to different groups of people,the results showed that: among medical students,gender was different in emotional scores and total discrimination scores,and the difference was statistically significant(F=2.919,P=0.004);Among ordinary residents,people living in different families,the emotional scores of discrimination against new coronary pneumonia patients were different,and the difference was statistically significant(F=4.632,P=0.003);Among ordinary residents,the emotional scores of discrimination against patients with new coronary pneumonia were different,and the differences were different among ordinary residents and the difference was statistically significant(F=4.632,P=0.003).In the group of medical students,whether the family members participated in the epidemic prevention work had a difference in the total score of discrimination against the new coronary pneumonia patients(P=0.034),and the degree of discrimination among the survey subjects who participated in the epidemic prevention work in the family was low.The research results showed that the survey respondents had a high degree of mastery of the basic knowledge of new coronary pneumonia,90.69% of the total number of people who answered correctly accounted for 90.69% of the total number of subjects,while the knowledge of the prevention of new coronary pneumonia was low,and the number of all correct answers was only for the study 31.65% of the total number of subjects.People of different genders,different family residences,and whether their families were involved in epidemic prevention work have different knowledge of new coronary pneumonia prevention,and the difference was statistically significant;the level of mastery of basic knowledge of new coronary pneumonia and the actual level of people who had recovered from new coronary pneumonia was negatively correlated(r=-0.238,P<0.01);the sense of fear plays a mediating role between the knowledge of new coronary pneumonia and the degree of discrimination against new coronary pneumonia patients,and the mediating effect accounts for 6.17%.Conclusion The new coronary pneumonia-related knowledge scale and the discrimination scale for new coronary pneumonia recovered persons compiled in this study are better,and can be used as a measurement tool to assess the population’s knowledge about COVID-19 and the discrimination against new coronary pneumonia patients;improve the population’s relevance to new coronary pneumonia The level of knowledge can reduce the occurrence of discrimination;when preventing the occurrence of discrimination,attention should be paid to the popularization of knowledge among people of different ages and different levels of knowledge about new coronary pneumonia and the psychological counseling of people who have previously been ill(non-new coronary pneumonia).