Understanding Cultural Issues in the Diabetes Self-Management Behaviors of Korean Immigrants

The Diabetes Educator

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 835-844

  Cha, Eunseok ^a   Yang, Kyeongra ^b   Lee, Jia ^c   Min, Jiwon ^a   Kim, Kevin H ^b   Dunbar, Sandra B ^a   Jennings, Bonnie Mowinski ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c District 2 Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; INSULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIET; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SELF CARE; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIET; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RISK FACTORS; SELF CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84869151948     PISSN: 01457217     EISSN: 15546063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0145721712460283     Document Type: Article

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