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Health-related stigma is defined as a personal experience with specific characteristics including: exclusion, rejection, blame, or devaluation resulting from the anticipation of a negative judgment [ 10].
It is "characterized by exclusion, rejection, blame or devaluation that results from experience, perception or reasonable anticipation of an adverse social judgment about a person or group" (p.280) [ 4].
Health-related social stigma is a negative social judgement based on a feature of a condition or its management that may lead to perceived or experienced exclusion, rejection, blame, stereotyping and/or status loss.
Health related stigma has been characterized as a process of social disqualification of individuals and populations identified with particular health problems, associated with exclusion, rejection, blame or devaluation [ 31].
Health-related stigma is the negative social judgement based on a feature of a condition or its management that leads to perceived or experienced exclusion, rejection, blame, stereotyping and/or status loss. 1 2 This is a destructive social phenomenon; one that has been observed and studied extensively in conditions such as HIV/AIDS, 3 5 obesity, 6 9 and mental illness.
Based on commonly used definitions of health-related stigma, we defined diabetes-related stigma to be an adverse social judgement based on a feature of diabetes or its management that may lead to perceived or experienced exclusion, rejection, blame, stereotyping and/or status loss.
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