Seeing the Faces, Hearing the Stories, Learning from Our Communities. Using Focus Groups to Gain an Understanding of Living with Diabetes in Various Communities.

摘要

The heart of this handbook is what we learned in 27 focus groups with people representing populations in the United States that are disproportionately affected by diabetes. Recognizing that various cultural and demographic factors influence the effectiveness-or cause the failure-of health communication programs, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) embarked on a nation-wide project in 1994 to learn more about how people living with diabetes view their disease. Nine focus groups were conducted with American Indian people and six each with African American, Hispanic/Latino, and Asian American people, including several subgroups of these major populations.