Grand Canyon University: Diabetes Education for Diverse Populations

This presentation addresses the critical need for culturally sensitive diabetes education, particularly focusing on the disproportionate impact of Type 2 diabetes on racial and ethnic minorities. It emphasizes the importance of understanding cultural factors, beliefs, and practices in providing effective diabetes self-management education. The presentation covers the scope of diabetes, risk factors for diverse populations, community education strategies, and the biology of Type 2 diabetes. It also addresses cultural barriers to insulin use, fears related to diabetes, and the importance of group engagement and nutritional preferences. The conclusion highlights the challenges healthcare providers face in delivering care to diverse patient populations and underscores the significance of considering patients' perspectives, values, and language barriers to achieve optimal health outcomes. The presentation is based on research from various sources and is designed to inform healthcare professionals on best practices for diabetes education in diverse communities.

NURSING PUBLIC HEALTH
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INTRODUCTION
 Type 2 diabetes tends to impact racial and
cultural subgroups at an disturbing rate in
the United States and in several nations
across the world (Sattar & Gill, 2015).
 The value of healthcare offered to these
diverse minority sections if typically
suboptimal subsequent to severe patient
related consequences as associated with the
ones in mainstreamed populaces.

AWARENESS OF WAYS IN WHICH CULTURE IMPACTS HEALTH
CONDITIONS
 Awareness of the essentiality for
cultural understanding through web-
based programs as well as
smartphone applications is the
primary step in the direction of
providing sensitive as well as
competent diabetes education
(Sapkota et al., 2015).
 It is greater than a limited knowledge
of cultural standards, ideologies,
customs, language as well as
actions.

UNDERSTANDING THE SCOPE OF DIABETES
 Diabetes tends to occur
at all age groups as well
as in all cultural groups.
It has been found in
fundamentally all parts
of the world.
 However, from a
universal perspective,
diabetes has turned into
a widespread whereby
over 150 million of adult
population across the
world suffer from,
diabetes (Abubakari et
al., 2016).

RISK FACTORS FOR ETHNICALLY DIVERSE POPULACES
 It is important that non-White populaces not only faces
augmented occurrence of Type 2 diabetes but further suffer
from more recurrent difficulties in addition to superior disease
severity.
 Studies of elder adults suffering from diabetes have explained
that Mexican Americans as well as African Americans face an
inordinate problem from diabetes in comparison to the aged
non-Hispanic Whites (López et al., 2016).

CONTINUATION
 Racial and ethnic minorities
have deprived level of health
care as evaluated to primary
subgroups.
 However, as per the Institute of
Medicine in the US , the
occurrence of important
healthcare differences amongst
racial as well as ethnic
subgroups along with the non-
Hispanic white residents
(Stojanovska, Naemiratch &
Apostolopoulos, 2017)

COMMUNITY EDUCATION REGARDING
TYPE 2 DIABETES
 Education Level
 It is important to understand by diverse
populaces that the occurrence of Type2
diabetes and CVD has been associated with
educational background.
 A study conducted in Washington has
revealed that Japanese-American male
inhabitants with advanced education
qualifications showed lower rate of
occurrence of type 2 diabetes in comparison
to the ones with technical school level
education (Janiszewski, O’Brian & Lipman,
2015).

UNDERSTANDING DIABETES-RELATED
COMPLICATIONS
 Diverse populations in the United States must
understand the identification of diabetes
complications and other factors linked to
patients.
 These factors might influence aspects of self-
management and thus calls for direct
emphasis and adequate resources.
 Patients must be involved in routine medical
treatment whereby they will be helped to
distinguish factors which influence treatment
along with related self-management plans
(Stojanovska, Naemiratch & Apostolopoulos,
2017).

KNOWING ABOUT THE BIOLOGY OF TYPE 2
DIABETES
 Inhabitants belonging to
diverse backgrounds in the
community must attain the
knowledge of pathophysiology
of type 2 diabetes.
 It is important for them to
understand that type 2
diabetes includes irregularities
at multiple organ as well as
system intensities. Studies
have claimed that insulin
sensitivity has revealed to be
lessened in diverse collections
at elevated threat for type 2
diabetes (Ferguson, Swan &
Smaldone, 2015).

CONTINUATION
 The amount, type as well
as position of body fat
tend to instigate the
threat related to type 2
diabetes as well as
associated complaints.
 Moreover, augmented
accumulation of visceral
fat typically advances to
reduced rate of insulin
sensitivity as well as
damaged endothelial
function.

CONTINUATION
 Diabetes-related sensitive suffering is also
seen as a common illness amongst patients
suffering from type 2 diabetes.
 Such emotional suffering is linked to the
psychological influence of having diabetes as
well as the necessity to track numerous
approvals on regular basis (Sherifali et al.,
2018).
 Moreover, the monotonous assessment of
diabetes-centric demonstrative distress is
extremely suggested.