title: Exploring diabetes type 1-related stigma.
abstract: 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.
  
  
  METHODS
  A conventional content analysis was used with in-depth interview with 26 people with and without diabetes from November 2011 to July 2012.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A person with type 1 diabetes was stigmatized as a miserable human (always sick and unable, death reminder, and intolerable burden), rejected marriage candidate (busy spouse, high-risk pregnant), and deprived of a normal life [prisoner of (to must), deprived of pleasure]. Although, young adults with diabetes undergo all aspects of the social diabetes-related stigma; in their opinion they were just deprived of a normal life.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It seems that in Isfahan, diabetes-related stigma is of great importance. In this way, conducting an appropriate intervention is necessary to improve the empowerment process in people with type 1 diabetes in order to reduce the stigma in the context.
authors: Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Centre, Department of Adult Nursing, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
authors: Samereh
authors: S
authors: Abdoli
authors: Parvaneh
authors: P
authors: Abazari
authors: Leila
authors: L
authors: Mardanian
keywords: Diabetes; Iran; disease-related stigma; people with diabetes; qualitative research; social stigma
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