Analysis of Diabetes Care in a Multicultural Community Setting

This report examines diabetes care within multicultural communities, focusing on the impact of cultural barriers on access to services and patient outcomes. The author analyzed a peer-reviewed article that explored cultural barriers, including linguistic diversity, religious beliefs, and health literacy, which impede diabetes care for ethnic minority groups. The report highlights the importance of culturally competent interventions and strategies to improve healthcare access and promote patient-provider trust. The author proposes linguistically competent strategies, culturally sensitive dietary advice, and health education to help patients manage their condition effectively. The report emphasizes the need to reconfigure diabetes care services to be more inclusive and responsive to the needs of diverse communities, ultimately aiming to improve diabetes care in multicultural settings.

Running head: DIABETES IN A MULTICULTURAL, DIVERSITY COMMUNITY
Diabetes in a Multicultural, Diversity Community
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Diabetes in a Multicultural, Diversity Community
To locate a peer-reviewed article about diabetes in a multicultural community, I limited
my database search to only peer-reviewed journals. I used the Academic Search Complete
database which allowed me to limit my search in such a manner, and there I found an article. It
was titled, “Cultural barriers impeding minority groups from accessing effective diabetes care
services: a systematic review of observational studies”. To determine whether it was peer-
reviewed, I physically examined it by first identifying the most recent entire annual issues. I
located the masthead of the publication which contained the publication details which confirmed
that the article was peer-reviewed.
The article was about identifying and exploring how cultural barriers can be a basis to
improve diabetes care (Dreessen, Huybrechts, Gronvall& Hendriks, 2007). Many reports have
shown that cultural barriers hinder some members of ethnic minority communities from
accessing diabetes care services. The article identified some cultural issues that could serve as
barriers namely: linguistic diversity, religious beliefs, poor health literacy levels, diverse beliefs
concerning health and diseases, low accessibility of culturally accepted services and poor
coordination with western professional advice. These issues compromise the diabetes care
accorded to people from ethnic minority communities (Dreessen, Huybrechts, Gronvall&
Hendriks, 2007). The article further recommends that more attention ought to be paid to the
development of interventions that are more culturally competent so as to improve the access of
health care and diabetic patient outcomes for members from diverse cultural minority
communities (Peter, Harbinder, Marie and Sturt, 2013).

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This article has expanded my knowledge relating to cultural diversity and diabetes care
services. It has given me a better understanding of how multicultural issues affect the delivery of
diabetes care to ethnic minority groups. They tend to impede the accessibility and utilization of
health care services as well as the implementation of professional health advice. There’s need to
reconfigure the prevailing diabetes care services in primary care in a manner that these services
are generally accepted in a multicultural community (Gutierrez,Devia,Weiss, Chantarat,
Ruddock, Linnell, &Calman, 2014).
For people suffering from diabetes, the knowledge about diabetes that they have can
greatly affect the quality of healthcare service they seek and receive. For instance, the inability of
minority members in a multicultural community to speak fluent English and low levels of health
literacy widen social distance and impede communication (Dreessen, Huybrechts, Gronvall&
Hendriks, 2007). This puts a threat to the trust among patients and health workers. I would
propose that there should be proper linguistically competent strategies that will facilitate the
provision of high-quality diabetes care to minority groups in a multicultural community.
Additionally, health workers should acknowledge cultural diversity and build trust which may in
turn promote concordance (Dreessen, Huybrechts, Gronvall& Hendriks, 2007). For instance,
dietary advice ought to be culturally sensitive and negotiated instead of being prescribed.
Therefore, it is important for health care providers to offer health education to diabetic patients in
order to help them manage their condition (Huff, Kline & Peterson, 2014).

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References
Dreessen, K., Huybrechts, L., Gronvall, E., & Hendriks, N. (2007).Infrastructuring Multicultural
Healthcare Information Systems. Participatory Design & Health Information
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Huff, R. M., Kline, M. V., & Peterson, D. V. (Eds). (2014). Health Promotion in multicultural
populations:A handbook for practitioners and students. SAGE publications.
Gutierrez, J., Devia, C., Weiss, L., Chantarat, T., Ruddock, C., Linnell, J., …&Calman, N.
(2014). Health, community, and spirituality: evaluation of a multicultural faith-based
diabetes prevention program. The Diabetes Educato, 40(2), 214-222.
Peter, Z., Harbinder, K. S., Marie, A. C., and Sturt. J. A., (2013). Cultural barriers impeding
ethnic minority groups from accessing effective diabetes care services. A systematic
review of observational studies.