Person-centred language and HIV research: a cross-sectional examination of stigmatising terminology in medical literature (original) (raw)

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Abstract

ObjectiveWe sought to quantify the use of person-centred language (PCL) in research journals that publish high volumes of HIV-related manuscripts.DesignIn this cross-sectional study, we searched PubMed for HIV-related articles published between 1 January 2017 and 7 March 2021. After journal reduction and article randomisation, title and abstract screening was conducted among 500 studies in a masked, duplicate fashion.MethodsStudies that were included were systematically searched for prespecified, stigmatising terms, partial terms and phrases. Prevalence rates of non-person-centred terminology were totalled, and the total number of articles adherent to PCL guidelines were reported. Fisher’s exact tests were used to determine associations between PCL adherence and article funding source, type of article, continent of origin and research, among others.ResultsAmong 237 studies included, 21.52% (51) of HIV-related publications in this cross-sectional analysis were found to be PCL adheren...

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