Health beliefs and folk models of diabetes in British Bangladeshis: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore the experience of diabetes in British Bangladeshis, since successful management of diabetes requires attention not just to observable behaviour but to the underlying attitudes and belief systems which drive that behaviour.

Design

Qualitative study of subjects' experience of diabetes using narratives, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and pile sorting exercises. A new qualitative method, the structured vignette, was developed for validating researchers' understanding of primary level culture.

Subjects

40 British Bangladeshi patients with diabetes, and 10 non-Bangladeshi controls, recruited from primary care.

Result

Several constructs were detected in relation to body image, cause and nature of diabetes, food classification, and knowl

SUBMITTER: Greenhalgh T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC28502 | biostudies-literature | 1998 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature