Emergent Health Communication Scholarship from and about African American, Latino/a/x, and American Indian/Alaskan Native Peoples

Cooke‐Jackson, Angela

doi:10.1080/10410236.2021.2019362

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“…The role of the receiver's response in the disclosure process may explain Cooke-Jackson's previous findings that daughters are not aware that how they talked to their mother during conversations about diabetes contributed to mothers feeling teased, which in turn, negatively affected mothers' disease management (Cooke-Jackson, 2006). The perception of teasing and the arrest of the communication cycle may be connected to the mother's and daughter's misaligned personal evaluations of diabetes.…”

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Enacting communication cycles after prediabetes: Mothers’ stories of diabetes risk and seeking support

Cafferty,

Fisher,

Ledford

2024

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Background: Diabetes is a family systems experience of multiple intergenerational relationships. Communicating about diabetes as a familial risk helps individuals perceive greater control over preventing diabetes. Aim: The present study investigates how mothers disclose their prediabetes to their family and the precipitating family communication, with the goal to interrupt the multigenerational legacy of diabetes. Method: Data were collected from a Family Medicine outpatient clinic. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to illicit information about mother-child communication about diabetes. Sort and Sift, Think and Shift analysis provided rich descriptions of mothers’ experiences. Results: The sample consisted of 9 women with prediabetes, aged 42-70, who had at least one child. Eight participants described at least 2 generations of family members with a diabetes-related diagnosis (prediabetes, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and gestational diabetes). First, we present two contextual factors that preexisted the prediabetes diagnosis, which influenced the disclosure decision: general health communication approach and personal evaluation of diabetes. Second, we present the communication cycles that supported self-management. Discussion: Continual communication cycles with family and clinicians can support mothers with prediabetes to enact self-management behaviors and delay the onset of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Conclusion: Mothers need family members to respond favorably to complete a positive communication cycle that can generate continuous emotional, social, and instrumental support.

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confidence: 98%