Using Focus Groups to Identify Diabetes Care and Education Issues for Latinos With Diabetes

The Diabetes Educator

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 618-624

  Anderson, Robert M ^a   Goddard, Chelsey E ^a   Garcia, Rosalind ^b   Guzman, J Ricardo ^c   Vazquez, Felipe ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Michigan Public Health Institute   (United States)

^c Community Health and Social Services Center Inc ^*  (United States)

^d Grupo de Estudios de Diabetes AC   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

EID: 0032172168     PISSN: 01457217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014572179802400507     Document Type: Article

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