COVID-19-related stigma among infected people in Sweden; psychometric properties and levels of stigma in two cohorts as measured by a COVID-19 stigma scale

• Maria Reinius,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Management Centre, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Veronica Svedhem,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Medical Unit Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden, Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden

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• Judith Bruchfeld,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Heidi Holmström Larm,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Unit Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden

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• Malin Nygren-Bonnier,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden, Medical Unit Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy, Women’s Health and Allied Health Professionals Theme, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden

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• Lars E. Eriksson

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lars.eriksson@ki.se

  Affiliations Medical Unit Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden, School of Health and Psychological Sciences, City, University of London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5121-5325

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