Socio-demographic and AIDS-related factors associated with tuberculosis stigma in southern Thailand: A quantitative, cross-sectional study of stigma among patients with TB and healthy community members

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kipp, Aaron M ^a   Pungrassami, Petchawan ^b   Nilmanat, Kittikorn ^c   Sengupta, Sohini ^d   Poole, Charles ^a   Strauss, Ronald P ^e   Chongsuvivatwong, Virasakdi ^c   Van Rie, Annelies ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b Tuberculosis Centre   (Thailand)

^c PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIOECONOMICS; THAILAND; TUBERCULOSIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STEREOTYPING; THAILAND; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052120095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-675     Document Type: Article

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