background: empowerment of people with diabetes means integrating diabetes with identity. however, others’ stigmatization can influence it. although diabetes is so prevalent among iranians, there is little knowledge about diabetes‑related stigma in iran. the present study explored diabetes‑related stigma in people living with type 1 diabetes in isfahan. materials and methods: a conventional con...

abstract background: this study explored the strategies to overcome diabetes-related social stigma in iran. materials and methods: this paper is part of an action research study which was designed in iran in 2012 to plan and implement a program for overcoming diabetes-related stigma. participants were people with type 1 diabetes, their family members, people without diabetes, and care providers...

a bstract background: one of the reported obstacles to the achievement of universal access to human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) prevention, treatment, care, and support programs includes stigma and discrimination from health workers, particularly nurses. since nursing students would become future practising nurses and are most likely exposed to caring for people living with hiv/aids (pl wha) d...

Background Stigmatizing attitudes among healthcare providers are an important barrier to accessing services among people living with HIV (PLHIV). This cross-sectional study aimed to assess the status and correlates of HIV-related stigma among healthcare providers in Kerman, Iran.   M...

Background: Not much is known about correlates of HIV-related self-stigma among female sex workers. Using the theory of planned behavior in the Malaysian context, this study investigated the relationships of HIV knowledge, attitudes towards HIV, attitudes towards people living with HIV, perceived social support, self-esteem, and age with HIV-related self-stigma, also how much of the variance in...

While tuberculosis is a preventable and curable disease, it still remains to be major cause of morbidity mortality across the world. Research reveals that stigma impacts control negatively through delaying diagnosis impairing treatment compliance. It also causes enormous suffering since, results with isolation patients their families from social life. In this review; magnitude, origins, correla...

The concept of stigma, denoting relations of shame, has a long ancestry and has from the earliest times been associated with deviations from the 'normal', including, in various times and places, deviations from normative prescriptions of acceptable states of being for self and others. This paper dwells on modern social formations and offers conceptual and theoretical pointers towards a more con...

As habitual self-stigma can have a tremendous negative impact on people with mental illness, it is of paramount importance to identify its risk factors. The present study aims to examine the potential contributory role of attentional bias in habitual self-stigma. People with mental illness having strong (n = 47) and weak (n = 47) habitual self-stigma completed a computerized emotional Stroop ta...

HIV/AIDS is considered by many one as the most dangerous disease emerged in the human history. Unlike many diseases, this one is not just a medical situation; but a social problem. Its ways of transmission, generally related to risky behaviors and sexual activities, have pulled the attention of different sectors of society to this disease. It seems that a stigma is formed around HIV/AIDS and pe...