Stakeholder Perspectives on the Responsible Innovation in Health Framework for Addressing Stigma-Based Health Inequalities Among People Who Stutter.

The study included five people who stutter, six clinicians and six health innovators, all purposively recruited, so it does not represent all people who stutter or clinicians. It was done in Québec and France in French, so local healthcare access, language and cultural context may shape the ideas. The ethics committee treated it as expert consultation and waived review, so it was not framed as research with patient participants. No intervention was implemented or tested, so the study cannot show that any idea reduces stigma or improves health. Participants rated ideas through their own professional and personal perspectives, and the recruitment networks may have favoured people already interested in equity and innovation. The short introduction to the Responsible Innovation in Health framework may have limited how fully stakeholders considered sustainability, especially environmental value.

The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest.

Do not read these ideas or ratings as evidence that a stuttering intervention reduces stigma. No intervention was tested, so the study reports stakeholder preferences, not patient outcomes.