Wellbeing
How do stigma and acceptance shape life after a stoma?
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Among 259 Chinese stoma patients, stigma was severe and psychosocial adaptation poor; disability acceptance improved adaptation and statistically mediated stigma’s harmful association.
Study at a glance
- Design
- Cross-sectional — Multicenter SEM of stigma, disability acceptance, and psychosocial adaptation in stoma patients (STROBE; SPSS/AMOS path model)
- N
- N=259 · 259 patients with stoma from 6 hospitals in southeast China
- Population
- Adults with stoma recruited from six hospitals in southeast China
- Outcome
- Social Impact Scale stigma, Acceptance of Disability Scale, Ostomy Adjustment Inventory-20 psychosocial adaptation
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Key findings
Mean stigma 72.76, medium acceptance 179.24, poor adaptation 38.06. The model fit (AGFI = 0.967; χ²/df = 1.723, p = 0.08). Acceptance positively, and stigma negatively, predicted psychosocial adaptation; acceptance mediated the stigma–adaptation path (p < 0.01).
Methodology
Enrolled 259 patients from 6 southeast China hospitals (STROBE; hospital ethics). Measured stigma (Social Impact Scale), disability acceptance, and ostomy adjustment (OAI-20), then tested a path model in SPSS 22 and AMOS 26.
Limitations
A cross-sectional SEM cannot prove that reducing stigma will causally raise adaptation, and the sample is limited to six hospitals in one region.
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