Sharing stories: complex intervention for diabetes education in minority ethnic groups who do not speak English.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop and refine a complex intervention for diabetes support and education in minority ethnic groups, delivered through bilingual health advocates.

Design

Action research framework-a variety of methods used in an emergent and developmental manner, in partnership with clinicians, managers, and service users, drawing especially but not exclusively on narrative methods.

Setting

Deprived inner London district.

Interventions

Development and evaluation of three components of the complex intervention: a group based learning set for bilingual health advocates, in which stories about clients with diabetes formed the basis for action learning; advocate led support and education groups for people with diabetes, which used personal stories as the raw materia

SUBMITTER: Greenhalgh T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC554907 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature