作者
Hamzah Alzubaidi, Kevin Mc Narmara, Gloria M Kilmartin, John F Kilmartin, Jennifer Marriott
发表日期
2015/11/1
期刊
Diabetes research and clinical practice
卷号
110
期号
2
页码范围
208-217
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Aims
To compare illness and treatment perceptions between Arabic-speaking immigrants and Caucasian English-speaking people with type 2 diabetes, and explore the relationships between these beliefs and adherence to self-care activities.
Methods
A cross-sectional study was conducted in healthcare settings with large Arabic populations in metropolitan and rural Victoria, Australia. Adherence to self-care activities, illness and treatment perceptions, and clinical data were recorded. Bivariate associations for continuous normally distributed variables were tested with Pearson's correlation. Non-parametric data were tested using Spearman's rank correlation coefficient.
Results
701 participants were recruited; 392 Arabic-speaking participants (ASPs) and 309 English-speaking participants (ESPs). There were significant relationships between participants’ illness and treatment perceptions and adherence to diabetes …
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