Stigma evaluation for diabetes and other chronic non-communicable disease patients: Development, validation and clinical use of stigma scale - The Kanden Institute Stigma Scale.

ABSTRACT:

Aims/introduction

The aim of this study was to develop a scale to evaluate disease stigma in patients with lifestyle-related chronic non-communicable diseases (LCNCDs), which we named the Kanden Institute Stigma Scale (KISS), and to consider its possible clinical application for patients with diabetes.

Materials and methods

An initial 90 questions were drafted and categorized into six subscales according to the manifestations of stigma. The final version of the KISS was developed as a 24-item questionnaire comprising four items for each subscale.

Results

A total of 539 outpatients including 452 patients with diabetes and 87 patients without diabetes were recruited. Construct validity was confirmed by assessing the correlation with previously established measures. Conf

SUBMITTER: Tanaka N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9720213 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature