Living With Diabetes: Perceptions Of Hispanic Migrant Farmworkers
Author: Heuer, Loretta
Date Published: 2006
This study focuses on Hispanic migrant farmworkers and their perceptions of living with diabetes. Through research on 12 participants recruited from two local migrant health centers, six themes emerged: usualness of diabetes, causes of diabetes, symptoms prior to the diagnosis of diabetes, understanding the chronicity of diabetes, impact of diabetes on daily life and fear of long-term complications. Findings show that though diabetes was prevalent in this population, some of the participants reflected that they did not know the cause of the diabetes, whereas others provided combined beliefs of biomedical and folk models. The impact of the physical and emotional symptoms of diabetes described by these participants affected their daily living.
Date Published: 2006
This study focuses on Hispanic migrant farmworkers and their perceptions of living with diabetes. Through research on 12 participants recruited from two local migrant health centers, six themes emerged: usualness of diabetes, causes of diabetes, symptoms prior to the diagnosis of diabetes, understanding the chronicity of diabetes, impact of diabetes on daily life and fear of long-term complications. Findings show that though diabetes was prevalent in this population, some of the participants reflected that they did not know the cause of the diabetes, whereas others provided combined beliefs of biomedical and folk models. The impact of the physical and emotional symptoms of diabetes described by these participants affected their daily living.
