Word Diabetes Day 2024! If you knew...

[Anna DUK]

This year to mark World Diabetes Day, Diabetes UK is highlighting the voices of the diabetes community to open up a conversation around the impact of diabetes stigma and start changing the mindset.

Find out more using the link below:

What are we doing to tackle stigma, and what’s next?

Since then, we’ve been doing a lot of work to better understand how stigma (or stereotypes and misconceptions) about diabetes present themselves and how they impact people living with diabetes. We’re now funding two research projects into diabetes-related stigma, in our biggest investment in...

www.diabetes.org.uk

 

[Anna DUK]

If you feel comfortable to share more detail about how misconceptions, prejudices or negative attitudes have affected you personally, you can use the link below.

This will help us as an organisation to understand more about the impact of stigma, and to ensure your voices are heard as we break down the stigma associated with diabetes.

Will you help us change the mindset and tackle diabetes stigma?

www.diabetes.org.uk

 

[helli]

If you feel comfortable to share more detail about how misconceptions, prejudices or negative attitudes have affected you personally, you can use the link below.

This will help us as an organisation to understand more about the impact of stigma, and to ensure your voices are heard as we break down the stigma associated with diabetes.

Will you help us change the mindset and tackle diabetes stigma?

www.diabetes.org.uk

I am happy to complete this survey.
However, the question "Can you tell us where you’ve experienced stigma?" does not include the cases where I have experienced most diabetes stigma - travelling and sport. Unfortunately, there is no option for "Other".
Is this because Diabetes UK want to focus on the areas listed or were others not considered?

 

[Anna DUK]

Thanks for your support with our new campaign @helli. I think the intention is to list the most common areas so that we don't end up with a very long list that people have to scroll through. Appreciate the feedback for an 'other' option though so I will feed this back. However, any other areas you have experienced stigma can be captured in the free-text box.

 

[JITR]

What are we doing to tackle stigma, and what’s next?

Since then, we’ve been doing a lot of work to better understand how stigma (or stereotypes and misconceptions) about diabetes present themselves and how they impact people living with diabetes. We’re now funding two research projects into diabetes-related stigma, in our biggest investment in...

www.diabetes.org.uk

@Anna DUK
The article says:
"This week we published more information on the causes of type 2 diabetes, fuelled by years of research we've funded into this area, as we know that helping people to understand the complexity of type 2 diabetes is an important step in tackling the harm and discrimination that comes from stigma."

The link looks very interesting but does not lead anywhere. Please let us know where it should go.

 

[JITR]

@Anna DUK
The article says:
"This week we published more information on the causes of type 2 diabetes, fuelled by years of research we've funded into this area, as we know that helping people to understand the complexity of type 2 diabetes is an important step in tackling the harm and discrimination that comes from stigma."

The link looks very interesting but does not lead anywhere. Please let us know where it should go.

@Anna DUK

Is this it?
- https://www.diabetes.org.uk/our-res...impact/discovering-new-causes-type-2-diabetes

 

[Anna DUK]

Hi @JITR, thanks for flagging that - yes looks like you've found the correct webpage that should be hyperlinked in that paragraph. I've let our web team know of the error and to rectify asap. Once again, thanks for letting us know.