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Beyond Culture and Language: Access to Diabetes Preventive Health Services among Somali Women in Norway
Despite the high prevalence of type 2 diabetes in some immigrant and refugee communities in Norway, there is very little information available on their utilization of diabetes prevention interventions, particularly for women from Somali immigrant communities. A qualitative study of 30 Somali immigra...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4525761/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26266267 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/549795 |
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author | Gele, Abdi A. Torheim, Liv Elin Pettersen, Kjell Sverre Kumar, Bernadette |
author_facet | Gele, Abdi A. Torheim, Liv Elin Pettersen, Kjell Sverre Kumar, Bernadette |
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description | Despite the high prevalence of type 2 diabetes in some immigrant and refugee communities in Norway, there is very little information available on their utilization of diabetes prevention interventions, particularly for women from Somali immigrant communities. A qualitative study of 30 Somali immigrant women aged 25 years and over was carried out in the Oslo area. Unstructured interviews were used to explore women's knowledge of diabetes, their access to preventive health facilities, and factors impeding their reception of preventive health programs targeted for the prevention of type 2 diabetes. The study participants were found to have a good knowledge of diabetes. They knew that a sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy diet are among the risk factors for diabetes. Regardless of their knowledge, participants reported a sedentary lifestyle accompanied with the consumption of an unhealthy diet. This was attributed to a lack of access to tailored physical activity services and poor access to health information. Considering gender-exclusive training facilities for Somali immigrant women and others with similar needs, in addition to access to tailored health information on diet, may encourage Somali women to adopt a healthy lifestyle, and it will definitely contribute to a national strategy for the prevention of diabetes. |
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spelling | pubmed-45257612015-08-11 Beyond Culture and Language: Access to Diabetes Preventive Health Services among Somali Women in Norway Gele, Abdi A. Torheim, Liv Elin Pettersen, Kjell Sverre Kumar, Bernadette J Diabetes Res Research Article Despite the high prevalence of type 2 diabetes in some immigrant and refugee communities in Norway, there is very little information available on their utilization of diabetes prevention interventions, particularly for women from Somali immigrant communities. A qualitative study of 30 Somali immigrant women aged 25 years and over was carried out in the Oslo area. Unstructured interviews were used to explore women's knowledge of diabetes, their access to preventive health facilities, and factors impeding their reception of preventive health programs targeted for the prevention of type 2 diabetes. The study participants were found to have a good knowledge of diabetes. They knew that a sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy diet are among the risk factors for diabetes. Regardless of their knowledge, participants reported a sedentary lifestyle accompanied with the consumption of an unhealthy diet. This was attributed to a lack of access to tailored physical activity services and poor access to health information. Considering gender-exclusive training facilities for Somali immigrant women and others with similar needs, in addition to access to tailored health information on diet, may encourage Somali women to adopt a healthy lifestyle, and it will definitely contribute to a national strategy for the prevention of diabetes. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4525761/ /pubmed/26266267 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/549795 Text en Copyright © 2015 Abdi A. Gele et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Gele, Abdi A. Torheim, Liv Elin Pettersen, Kjell Sverre Kumar, Bernadette Beyond Culture and Language: Access to Diabetes Preventive Health Services among Somali Women in Norway |
title | Beyond Culture and Language: Access to Diabetes Preventive Health Services among Somali Women in Norway |
title_full | Beyond Culture and Language: Access to Diabetes Preventive Health Services among Somali Women in Norway |
title_fullStr | Beyond Culture and Language: Access to Diabetes Preventive Health Services among Somali Women in Norway |
title_full_unstemmed | Beyond Culture and Language: Access to Diabetes Preventive Health Services among Somali Women in Norway |
title_short | Beyond Culture and Language: Access to Diabetes Preventive Health Services among Somali Women in Norway |
title_sort | beyond culture and language: access to diabetes preventive health services among somali women in norway |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4525761/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26266267 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/549795 |
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