A strengths-based approach to exploring diabetes management in an Indigenous minority population: A mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT: Indigenous and other marginalized racial/ethnic minorities have poorer health status than majority populations, including higher rates of type 2 diabetes. These disparities have typically been addressed using a 'deficit-based' discourse that isolates disease management from the broader social, economic, political context and does not incorporate patient perspectives. We aimed to explore factors affecting glycemic control among Indigenous Arabs with diabetes in Israel using a strengths-based approach that centered participants' knowledge of their context, needs, resources and strengths. We conducted an exploratory sequential mixed methods study, which included 10 focus groups (5 men's, 5 women's) and 296 quantitative in-person surveys. Participants with diagnosed diabetes were randomly draw

SUBMITTER: Abu-Saad K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8664199 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature