Making sense of diabetes: cultural models, gender and individual adjustment to Type 2 diabetes in a Mexican community

Gender Differences in Diabetes Self-Management: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of a Mobile Health Intervention for Inner-City Latino Patients

“…Research has shown that women in Mexico are more likely to share diabetes information with peers than with men. 41 This gender difference in knowledge gains may reflect the unreliability of the sources on which these women relied prior to TExT-MED. Additionally, women and men identified gender-specific areas needing support from diabetes interventions.…”

Living with Sugar: Influence of Cultural Beliefs on Type 2 Diabetes Self-Management of English-Speaking Afro-Caribbean Women

“…Cultural consensus analysis studies have also found shared cultural models about type 2 diabetes in other populations including the Anishinabe in an Ojibway community [8], Mexicans in Guadalajra [10], Latino communities in the US, Mexico, and Guatemala [16], and ethnic groups in Thailand [17].…”

“…Cultural knowledge is shared and built on memory and communal experiences [6,7]. The cultural beliefs of diabetic patients have an impact on their treatment behaviors both positively and negatively [5,[8][9][10]. Understanding cultural beliefs about type 2 diabetes and how they might conflict with biomedical knowledge would improve self-management programs that target at risk minority ethnic groups.…”

“…The cultural consensus model has been criticized as an ''idealistic'' approach to studying culture because it measures the frequency of cultural beliefs and patterns of agreement without reliability and meaning/interpretation [8,15]. However, cultural consensus analysis has been used to discover cultural explanatory models about type 2 diabetes [8,10,16,17], hypertension [18][19][20], malaria [21], disease/ illness concepts [22], HIV/AIDS [23], and cancer risk [24]. This study used both the cultural consensus model along with semi-structured interviews to identify: (1) if Englishspeaking Afro-Caribbean women shared cultural beliefs about type 2 diabetes, and (2) how these cultural beliefs influenced their type 2 diabetes self-management.…”

Tapping Healthcare Resource by Older Mexicans with Diabetes: How Migration to the United States Facilitates Access

“…In fact, adequate diabetes control is achieved by few Mexicans suffering from the disease (Rull et al 2005). Due to a deficiency in resources to care for diabetes, a growing number of studies have been conducted in order to understand how effective alternatives to caring and treating the disease are devised or can be implemented as an attempt to gain some control of this exacerbating public health problem (Lerman et al 2004;Daniulaityte 2004).…”