Facilitators and barriers to self-management of type 2 diabetes among urban African American adults: Focus group findings

Diabetes Educator

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 897-905

  Chlebowy, Orr Diane ^a   Hood, Sula ^b   LaJoie, A Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b School of Public Health Information Sciences (SPHIS)   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROL; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SELF CARE; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SELF CARE; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 78650148941     PISSN: 01457217     EISSN: 15546063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0145721710385579     Document Type: Article

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