What is it about?
Culture and food are inextricably linked, and these relationships impact how a cultural group will view and manage disease. The study describes the sociocultural experience of Mexican American women with diabetes, particularly in relation to food habits.
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Why is it important?
Our findings show that culture and traditional food ways remain important parts of Mexican American women, regardless of being diagnosed with diabetes. Developing expertise in the management of diabetes requires time, and that expertise is developed within the sociocultural context.
Perspectives
For me this work is so important to helping us (clinicians) understand that persons experience and understand illness in a manner that is different from the classic biomedical model or ideology. Understanding these experiences can shed light on how to more effectively reach out to marginalized groups.
Dr Sandra Benavides-Vaello
Montana State University Bozeman
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This page is a summary of: Sociocultural construction of food ways in low-income Mexican-American women with diabetes: a qualitative study, Journal of Clinical Nursing, June 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jocn.13291.
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