“I Don’t Like to Make a Big Thing out of It”: A Qualitative Interview-Based Study Exploring Factors Affecting Whether Young People Tell or Do Not Tell Their Friends about Their IBD

Table 1

Types of stigma (developed from [19, 28, 29]).

Type of stigma	Description
Anticipated	Expectation by the person with condition that people will stigmatise them
Perceived or felt	Degree to which person perceives stigma directed at them from others
Internalised	How much the person believes that discrimination against them is deserved
Enacted	Social discrimination by people towards those with condition
Associative or affiliate	Stigma experienced because of connection with a stigmatised person
Kinship	Being or feeling stigmatised by members of family
Cultural or external	Degree to which society/culture person living in devalues person’s condition