Stigma Research Stream

Brener, L., Cama, E., Broady, T., Harrod, M., Holly, C., Caruana, T., … & Treloar, C. (2024). Experiences of stigma and subsequent reduced access to health care among women who inject drugs. Drug and Alcohol Review, advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.13806, opens in a new window

Brener, L., Caruana, T., Cama, E., Gilford, C., Crawford, S., Capell-Hattam, T., & von Hippel, C. (2024). Stigma by association among alcohol and other drug and harm reduction workers: Implications for workplace outcomes. Drug and Alcohol Review, advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.13861, opens in a new window

Broady, T. R., Valerio, H., Alavi, M., Wheeler, A., Silk, D., Martinello, M., Conway, A., Milat, A., Dunlop, A., Murray, C., Henderson, C., Amin, J., Read, P., Marks, P., Degenhardt, L., Stevens, A., Prain, B., Hayllar, J., Reid, D., Montebello, M., … ETHOS Engage Study Group (2024). Factors associated with experiencing stigma, discrimination, and negative health care treatment among people who inject drugs. International Journal on Drug Policy, 128, 104468. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104468, opens in a new window

Cama, E., Brener, L., Horwitz, R., Broady, T., Vu, K., Jin, D., Wu, E., & Treloar, C. Factors associated with hepatitis B knowledge among people of Vietnamese ethnicity in Australia. Psychology Health and Medicine, advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2024.2350703, opens in a new window

Cama, E., Brener, L., Broady, T., Horwitz, R., Jin, D., Vu, K., Wu, E., & Treloar, C. (2024). Hepatitis B screening and knowledge among Chinese and Vietnamese students in Australia. PLOS One, 19(3), e0299224. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299224, opens in a new window

Caruana, T., Brener, L., Calabrese, S. K., Cama, E., Treloar, C., & Broady, T. (2024). Differences in stigma reduction related to injection drug use between people expressing conservative, moderate and progressive values following an online intervention. Drug and Alcohol Review, 43(4), 853–860. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.13815, opens in a new window

Sutherland, R., King, C., Karlsson, A., Treloar, C., Broady, T., Chandrasena, U., Salom, C., Dietze, P., & Peacock, A. (2024). Stigma, and factors associated with experiencing stigma, while visiting health-care services among samples of people who use illegal drugs in Australia. Drug and Alcohol Review, advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.13846, opens in a new window

Brener, L., Broady, T. Cama, E. & Treloar. (2023). The impact of sources of stigma on health care avoidance among gay and bisexual men in Australia. AIDS Care, 35(5), 663-671. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2022.2057410, opens in a new window

Broady, T., Brener, L., Caruana, T., Cama, E., & Treloar, C. (2023). Factors associated with sharing equipment among people who inject drugs: The role of community attachment in harm reduction and health promotion. Drug and Alcohol Review, 42(3), 561-568. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.13606, opens in a new window

Broady, T., Brener, L., Horwitz, R., Cama, E., & Treloar, C. (2023). Reducing stigma towards people living with HIV and people who inject drugs using social norms theory: An online study with Australian health care workers. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 249, 109953. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.109953, opens in a new window

Schroeder, S. E., Treloar, C., Bourne, A., Stoové, M., Doyle, J., Hellard, M., & Pedrana, A. (2023). Pre-Empting Stigma and Complicating Trauma: Narratives of Gay and Bisexual Men who Inject Drugs in Australia. Qualitative Health Research, 33(8-9), 688–700. https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323231173788, opens in a new window

Sivak, L., Reilly, R., Lockton, J., Treloar, C., Roe, Y., McKetin, R., Butt, J., Ezard, N., Winkenweder, H., & Ward, J. (2023). Psychosocial stress and methamphetamine use: A mixed-methods study of intersectional stigma and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander methamphetamine use. International Journal on Drug Policy, 121, 104189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104189, opens in a new window

Brener, L., Cama, E., Broady, T., Hopwood, M. & Treloar, C. (2022). Comparing Australian health worker and student attitudes and concerns about providing care to people living with hepatitis B. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 33(1), 282-288. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpja.475, opens in a new window  

Brener, L., Caruana, T., Broady, T., Cama, E., Ezard, N., Madden, A. & Treloar, C. (2022). Addressing injecting related risks among people who inject both opioids and stimulants: Findings from an Australian survey of people who inject drugs. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 15, 100398. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2021.100398, opens in a new window

Horwitz, R., Brener, L., Marshall, A. D., Caruana, T., & Newman, C. E. (2022). Optimising community health services in Australia for populations affected by stigmatised infections: What do service users want? Health and Social Care in the Community, 30, e3686–e3695. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hsc.14037, opens in a new window

Jin, D., Brener, L., & Treloar, C. (2022). Hepatitis B-related stigma among Chinese immigrants living with hepatitis B virus in Australia: A qualitative study. Health and Social Care in the Community, 30, e5602–e5611. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13986, opens in a new window

Jin, D., Brener, L., & Treloar, C. (2022). Knowledge and beliefs about hepatitis B virus infection and associated factors among Chinese migrants in Australia: The result of a quantitative study. Health and Social Care in the Community, 30(3), 918-925. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13239, opens in a new window

Jin, D., Treloar, C., & Brener, L., (2022). Hepatitis B virus related stigma among Chinese living in mainland China: a scoping review. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 27(8), 1760-1773. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2021.1944651, opens in a new window

Treloar, C., Cama, E., Lancaster, K., Brener, L., Broady, T.R., Cogle, A. & O’Donnell, D. (2022). A universal precautions approach to reducing stigma in health care: Getting beyond HIV specific stigma. Harm Reduction Journal, 19, 74. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-022-00658-w, opens in a new window

Treloar, C., Lancaster, K., Gendera, S., Rhodes, T., Shahbazi, J., Byrne, M., Degenhardt, L., & Farrell, M. (2022). Can a new formulation of opiate agonist treatment alter stigma?: Place, time and things in the experience of extended-release buprenorphine depot. International Journal of Drug Policy, 107, 103788. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103788, opens in a new window

Brener, L., Broady, T., Cama, E., Hopwood, M., Byrne, J. & Treloar, C. (2021). Positive effects of community attachment on internalised stigma and wellbeing among people who inject drugs. International Journal of Drug Policy, 97, 103323. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103323, opens in a new window

Broady, T. R., Brener, L. Vuong, T., Cama, E., & Treloar, C. (2021). Online interventions to reduce stigma towards population groups affected by blood borne viruses in Australia. International Journal of Drug Policy, 96, 103292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103292, opens in a new window

Cama, E., Brener, L., Broady, T., Hopwood, M. & Treloar, C. (2021). Australian health and medical workers’ concerns around providing care to people living with hepatitis B. Health & Social Care in the Community, 29(6), e431-e439. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13368, opens in a new window

Djordjevic, F., Ryan, K., Gunn, J., Brener, L., O’Keefe, D., Draper, B., Schroeder, S., Gold, J., Treloar, C., Broady, T., Dietze, P., Hellard, M., & Pedrana, A. (2021). Health service utilization and experiences of stigma amongst people who inject drugs in Melbourne, Australia. Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 28(12), 1738- 1743. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvh.13612, opens in a new window

Stardust, Z., Treloar, C., Cama, E., Kim, J. (2021). ‘I Wouldn’t call the cops if i was being bashed to death’: Sex work, whore stigma and the criminal legal system. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 10(3), 142-157. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/IJCJSD.1894, opens in a new window

Treloar, C., Hopwood, M., Drysdale, K., Lea, T., Holt, M., Dowsett, G. W., Aggleton, P., & Bryant, J. (2021). Stigma as understood by key informants: A social ecological approach to gay and bisexual men's use of crystal methamphetamine for sex. International Journal of Drug Policy, 94, 103229 – 103229. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103229, opens in a new window

Treloar, C., Stardust, Z., Cama, E., & Kim, J. (2021,). Rethinking the relationship between sex work, mental health and stigma: a qualitative study of sex workers in Australia. Social Science and Medicine, 268, 113468. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113468, opens in a new window

Broady, T.R., Brener, L., Cama, E., Hopwood, M., & Treloar, C. (2020). Stigmatising attitudes towards injecting drug use, blood borne viruses, and sexually transmissible infections in a representative sample of the Australian public. PLOS ONE, 15(4), e0232218. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232218, opens in a new window

Brener, L., Broady, T., Cama, E., Hopwood, M., de Wit, J.B.F., & Treloar, C. (2020). The role of social support in moderating the relationship between HIV centrality, internalised stigma and psychological distress for people living with HIV. AIDS Care, 32(7), 850-857. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2019.1659914, opens in a new window

Broady, T.R., Brener, L., Hopwood, M., Cama, E., Treloar, C., & Holt, M. (2020). HIV stigma by association among Australian gay and bisexual men. AIDS, 34(Suppl 1), S53-S61. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0000000000002565, opens in a new window

Cama, E., Brener, L., Slavin, S., & de Wit, J. (2020). The relationship between negative responses to HIV status disclosure and psycho-social outcomes among people living with HIV. Journal of Health Psychology, 25(4), 538-544. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359105317722404, opens in a new window

Hopwood, M., Cama, E., de Wit, J., & Treloar, C. (2020). Stigma, Anxiety, and Depression Among Gay and Bisexual Men in Mixed-Orientation Marriages. Qualitative Health Research, 30(4), pp. 622 – 633. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732319862536, opens in a new window

Rance, J., Lafferty, L., & Treloar, C. (2020). ‘Behind closed doors, no one sees, no one knows’: hepatitis C, stigma and treatment-as-prevention in prison. Critical Public Health, 30(2), 130-140. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2018.1541225, opens in a new window

Brener, L., Cama, E., Broady, T.R., Hopwood, M., de Wit, J., & Treloar, C. (2019). Predictors of health care workers’ support for discriminatory treatment and care of people who inject drugs. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 24(4), 439-445. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2018.1546018, opens in a new window

Broady, T.R., Cama, E., Brener, L., Hopwood, M., de Wit, J., & Treloar, C. (2018). Responding to a national policy need: Development of a stigma indicator for blood borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 42(6), 513-515. https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12809, opens in a new window

Madden, A., Hopwood, M., Neale, J., & Treloar, C. (2018). Beyond interferon side effects: What residual barriers exist to DAA hepatitis C treatment for people who inject drugs? PLoS ONE, 13(11), e0207226. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207226, opens in a new window

Rose, G., von Hippel, C., Brener, L., & von Hippel, B. (2018). Attitudes of people working in mental health non-governmental organisations in Australia: A comparison with other mental health professionals. Health Psychology Open, 5(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055102918765413, opens in a new window

von Hippel, C., Brener, L., & Horwitz, R. (2018). Implicit and explicit internalized stigma: Relationship with risky behaviors, psychosocial functioning and healthcare access among people who inject drugs. Addictive Behaviors, 76, 305-311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2017.08.036, opens in a new window

Brener, L., Cama, E., Hull, P., & Treloar, C. (2017). Evaluation of an online injecting drug use stigma intervention targeted at health providers in New South Wales, Australia. Health Psychology Open, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/2055102917707180, opens in a new window

Fraser, S., Pienaar, K., Dilkes-Frayne, E., Moore, D., Kokanovic, R., Treloar, C., & Dunlop, A. (2017) Addiction stigma and the biopolitics of liberal modernity: A qualitative analysis. International Journal of Drug Policy, 44, 192-201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.02.005, opens in a new window

Brener, L., von Hippel, C., Wilson, H., & Hopwood, M. (2016). Health workers' support for hepatitis C treatment uptake among clients with a history of injecting. Journal of Health Psychology, 23(8), 1012-1018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359105316642002, opens in a new window

Brener, L., Wilson, H., Jackson, L. C., Johnson, P., Saunders, V., & Treloar, C. (2016). Experiences of diagnosis, care and treatment among Aboriginal people living with hepatitis C. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 40(S1), S59-S64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12402, opens in a new window

Cama, E., Brener, L., Wilson, H., & von Hippel, C. (2016). Internalized Stigma Among People Who Inject Drugs. Substance Use and Misuse, 51(12), 1664-1668. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2016.1188951, opens in a new window

Treloar, C., Jackson, L. C., Gray, R., Newland, J., Wilson, H., Saunders, V., Johnson, P., & Brener, L. (2016). Multiple stigmas, shame and historical trauma compound the experience of Aboriginal Australians living with hepatitis C. Health Sociology Review, 25(1), 18 - 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2015.1126187, opens in a new window

Treloar, C., Rance, J., Yates, K., & Mao, L. (2016). Trust and people who inject drugs: The perspectives of clients and staff of Needle Syringe Programs, International Journal of Drug Policy, 27, 138-145. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2015.08.018, opens in a new window

Brener, L., Horwitz, R., Von Hippel, C., Bryant, J., & Treloar, C. (2015). Discrimination by health care workers versus discrimination by others: Countervailing forces on HCV treatment intentions. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 20(2), 148-153. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2014.923103, opens in a new window

Cama, E., Brener, L., Slavin, S., & de Wit, J. (2015). The impact of HIV treatment-related stigma on uptake of antiretroviral therapy, AIDS Care, 27(6), 739-742. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2014.998614, opens in a new window

Cama, E., Wilson, H., Mackenzie, A., & Brener, L. (2015). Hepatitis C Stigma and Empowerment Through Positive Speaking in Sydney, Australia. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 25(5), 418-431. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/casp.2222, opens in a new window

Treloar, C., Hopwood, M., Yates, K., & Mao, L. (2015). Doing the devils work": Emotional labour and stigma in expanding Needle and Syringe Programs. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 22(5), 437-443. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2015.1057553, opens in a new window

Wilson, H., Brener, L., Mao, L., & Treloar, C. (2014). Perceived discrimination and injecting risk among people who inject drugs attending Needle and Programmes in Sydney, Australia. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 144, 274-278. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2014.08.018, opens in a new window

Brener, L., Callander, D., Slavin, S., & de Wit, J. (2013). Experiences of HIV stigma: the role of visible symptoms, HIV centrality and HIV-positive community attachment for people living with HIV. AIDS Care, 25(9), 1166-1173. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2012.752784, opens in a new window

Brener, L., Ellard, J. M., Murphy, D. A., & Callander, D. (2013). Perceptions and deflections: Associations between attitudes towards people with hepatitis C and testing for hepatitis C among Australian gay and bisexual men. Sexual Health, 10(3), 268-274. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH12179, opens in a new window

Brener, L., Rose, G., Treloar, C., Cama, E., & Whiticker, M. (2013). Mental health support workers' attitudes towards hepatitis C and injecting drug use: Barriers to recovery? Mental Health and Substance Use, 7(3), 217-229. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17523281.2013.806951, opens in a new window

Brener, L., Rose ,G., von Hippel, C., & Wilson, H. (2013). Implicit attitudes, emotions and helping intentions of mental health workers towards their clients. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 201(6), 460-463. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0b013e318294744a, opens in a new window

Brener, L., von Hippel, C., Horwitz, R., & Hamwood, J. (2013). The impact of pluralistic ignorance on the provision of health care for people who inject drugs. Journal of Health Psychology, 20(9), 1240-1249. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359105313510336, opens in a new window

Brener, L., Wilson, H., Slavin, S., & de Wit, J. (2013). The impact of living with HIV: Differences in experiences of stigma for heterosexual and homosexual people living with HIV in Australia. Sexual Health, 10(4), 316-319. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH12170, opens in a new window

Deacon, R. M., Mooney-Somers, J., Treloar, C., & Maher, L. (2013). At the intersection of marginalised identities: Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people's experiences of injecting drug use and hepatitis C seroconversion. Health and Social Care in the Community, 21(4), 402-410. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12026, opens in a new window

Rose, G., Cama, E., Brener, L., & Treloar, C. (2013). Knowledge and attitudes towards hepatitis C and injecting drug use among mental health support workers of a community managed organisation. Australian Health Review, 37(5), 654-659. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/AH13134, opens in a new window

Treloar, C., Rance, J., & Backmund, M. (2013). Understanding barriers to hepatitis c virus care and stigmatization from a social perspective. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 57(S2), S51-S55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/cit263, opens in a new window

Treloar, C., Rance, J., Grebely, J., & Dore, G. J. (2013). Client and staff experiences of a co-located service for hepatitis C care in opioid substitution treatment settings in New South Wales, Australia. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 133(2), 529-534. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2013.07.023, opens in a new window

Brener, L., Wilson, H., Rose, G., Mackenzie, A., & de Wit, J. (2012). Challenging stereotypes and changing attitudes: improving quality of care for people with hepatitis C through Positive Speakers programs. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 18(2), 242-249. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2012.701753, opens in a new window

Resnick, I., Brener, L., Treloar, C., & Hull, P. B. (2012). Health worker attitudes towards peer workers in hepatitis C prevention. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 17(6), 659-666. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2012.656660, opens in a new window

Rose, G., Beale, I., Malone, J., Higgin, J., Whiticker, M., & Brener, L. (2012). Problematic substance use in two mental health NGOs, and staff, client and general public attitudes towards problematic substance use amongst people with mental illness. Mental Health and Substance, 5(4), 275-286. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17523281.2012.702518, opens in a new window

von Hippel, C., & Brener, L. (2011). Specificity of discrimination: Does it matter from whence it comes? Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 42(4), 1029-1042. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.2011.00851.x, opens in a new window

Brener, L., von Hippel, W. H., Kippax, S. C., & Preacher, K. (2010). The role of physician and nurse attitudes in the health care of injecting drug users. Substance Use and Misuse, 45(7-8), 1007-1018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10826081003659543, opens in a new window

Brener, L., von Hippel, W. H., von Hippel, C., & Treloar, C. (2010). Perceptions of discriminatory treatment by staff as predictors of drug treatment completion: utility of a mixed methods approach. Drug and Alcohol Review, 29(5), 491-497, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-3362.2010.00173.x, opens in a new window

Hopwood, M. N., Nakamura, T., & Treloar, C. (2010). Disclosing hepatitis C infection within everyday contexts: Implications for accessing support and healthcare. Journal of Health Psychology, 15(6), 811-818. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359105310370499, opens in a new window

Horwitz, R., Brener, L., Treloar, C., Sabri, W., Moreton. R., Sedrak, A. (2010). Hepatitis C in an Australian migrant community: knowledge of and attitudes towards transmission and infection. Contemporary Drug Problems, 37(4), 659-683. https://doi.org/10.1177/009145091003700408, opens in a new window

Brener, L., & Treloar, C. (2009). Alcohol and other drug treatment experiences of hepatitis C-positive and negative clients: implications for hepatitis C treatment. Australian Health Review, 33(1), 100-106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/AH090100, opens in a new window

Brener, L., & von Hippel, W. H. (2008). Measuring attitudes towards injecting drug users and people with hepatitis C. Substance Use and Misuse, 43(3-4), 295-302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10826080701202627, opens in a new window

von Hippel, W. H., Brener, L., Von Hippel, C. D. (2008). Implicit prejudice toward injecting drug users predicts intentions to change jobs among drug and alcohol nurses. Psychological Science, 19(1), 7-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02037.x, opens in a new window

Brener, L., Von Hippel, W. H., & Kippax, S. C. (2007). Prejudice among health care workers toward injecting drug users with hepatitis C: Does greater contact lead to less prejudice? International Journal of Drug Policy, 18(5), 381-387. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2007.01.006, opens in a new window

Hopwood, M. N., & Treloar, C. (2007). The drugs that dare not speak their name: Injecting and other illicit drug use during treatment for hepatitis C infection. International Journal of Drug Policy, 18(5), 374-380. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2006.12.018, opens in a new window

Hopwood, M. N., Treloar, C., & Bryant, J. (2006). Hepatitis C and injecting-related discrimination in New South Wales, Australia. Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy, 13(1), 61-75/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687630500481150, opens in a new window

Fraser, S. & Treloar, C. (2006). `Spoiled identity` in hepatitis C infection: The binary logic of despair. Critical Public Health, 16(2), 99-110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581590600828683, opens in a new window

Treloar, C., & Holt, M. (2006). Deficit models and divergent philosophies: Service providers` perspectives on barriers and incentives to drug treatment. Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy, 13(4), 367-382. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687630600761444, opens in a new window

Treloar, C., & Cao, W. (2005). Barriers to use of needle and syringe programs in a high drug use area of Sydney, New South Wales. International Journal of Drug Policy, 16(5), 308-315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2005.06.005, opens in a new window

Treloar, C., & Hopwood, M. (2004). Infection control in the context of hepatitis C disclosure: implications for education of healthcare professionals. Education for health (Abingdon, England), 17(2), 183–191. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576280410001711012, opens in a new window