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Effects of Stigma on TB Patients
Learning ObjectivesEffects of Stigma on TB Patients
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At Individual Level
- Lack of self-esteem and confidence
- Increased sense of emotional isolation, feeling of guilt and anxiety
- Physical as well as financial debilitation
- People, more often women, are forced to leave their homes
- Concealing symptoms and hesitancy in seeking medical care making disease management more difficult
- Delayed diagnosis, interrupted treatment that can lead to further transmission and DRTB
- Vulnerability increases, can lead to suicidal thoughts due to isolation and shame
At Family and Community Levels
- Loss of household earnings
- Exposure of caregivers to the risk of infection that lowers productivity and cycle of poverty further gets perpetuated
- Isolation and stigmatization of infected persons often by people of their community
- Deep-rooted lack of knowledge and misconceptions among the affected and infected within their cultural and religious environment
- Loss of status and negative impact on those with the disease, their caregivers, family, friends and communities
- Perceived and internalized stigma of the community due to socio-cultural values that TB is punishment for sins or transgression
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