Mark Peyrot, Leonard E Egede, Martha M Funnell, William C Hsu, Laurie Ruggiero, Linda M Siminerio, Heather L Stuckey
AIMS: Understanding the relationship between ethnicity and self-management is important due to disparities in healthcare access, utilization, and outcomes among adults with type 2 diabetes from different ethnic groups in the US. METHODS: Self-reports of self-management and interest in improving self-management from US people with diabetes (PWD) in the 2nd Diabetes Attitudes, Wishes and Needs (DAWN2) study, a multinational, multi-stakeholder survey, were analyzed, including 447 non-Hispanic White, 241 African American, 194 Hispanic American, and 173 Chinese American PWD (>18 years)...
June 2018: Journal of Diabetes and its Complications