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Testing the efficacy of culturally adapted coping skills training for Chinese American immigrants with type 2 diabetes using community-based participatory research
Chesla, Catherine A.; Chun, Kevin M.; Kwan, Christine M. L.; Mullan, Joseph T.; Kwong, Yulanda; Hsu, Lydia; Huang, Peggy; Strycker, Lisa A.; Shum, Tina; To, Diana; Kao, Rudy; Waters, Catherine M.
Abstract:
Chinese Americans demonstrate greater prevalence of diabetes than non-Hispanic whites and find standard diabetes care disregards their cultural health beliefs. Academic researchers and Chinatown agencies collaborated to culturally adapt and test an efficacious cognitive-behavioral intervention using community-based participatory research. Using a delayed-treatment repeated-measures design, 145 adult Chinese immigrants with Type 2 diabetes completed treatment. Immediate benefits of treatment were evident in the improvement (p
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quality of life; distress; intervention; Chinese; Asian; community-based participatory research
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