TY - JOUR
T1 - “I put diabetes on the shelf”
T2 - African-American Women’s Perceptions of Risk for Diabetes Complications
AU - Ochieng, Judith Muhonja
AU - Crist, Janice D.
N1 - Funding Information:
I want to acknowledge my co-author Dr Janice Crist for her tireless contribution in editing and ensuring the manuscript was well written, my writing group at Arizona State University College of Nursing and Health Innovation for their support in editing and great suggestion when I was working on this manuscript in the summer of 2020, my family for their support and my husband Charles Maduma who is always my cheerleader and was always with me late in the night when I was working on this manuscript. I am very grateful for all your support. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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© The Author(s) 2021.
PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - The purpose of this study was to describe the perceptions of African American (AA) women with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) about developing diabetes mellitus (DM) complications and explore how their perceived risk influenced DM self-management. Ten (N = 10) AA women participated in the qualitative description study through semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis informed by the Health Belief Model and Risk Perception Conceptual Model revealed the perceived probability of DM complications by AA women with T2DM and how they made judgments regarding the seriousness, extent, or severity of complications. Those with high levels of DM knowledge perceived themselves at high risk of developing DM complications and those with low DM knowledge perceived themselves at low risk of DM complications. Risk perceptions and health literacy also influenced DM self-management behaviors.
AB - The purpose of this study was to describe the perceptions of African American (AA) women with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) about developing diabetes mellitus (DM) complications and explore how their perceived risk influenced DM self-management. Ten (N = 10) AA women participated in the qualitative description study through semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis informed by the Health Belief Model and Risk Perception Conceptual Model revealed the perceived probability of DM complications by AA women with T2DM and how they made judgments regarding the seriousness, extent, or severity of complications. Those with high levels of DM knowledge perceived themselves at high risk of developing DM complications and those with low DM knowledge perceived themselves at low risk of DM complications. Risk perceptions and health literacy also influenced DM self-management behaviors.
KW - African American women
KW - diabetes complications
KW - risk perceptions
KW - self-management
KW - type 2 diabetes mellitus
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U2 - 10.1177/1054773821996551
DO - 10.1177/1054773821996551
M3 - Article
C2 - 33615849
AN - SCOPUS:85101721806
SN - 1054-7738
VL - 30
SP - 1012
EP - 1022
JO - Clinical nursing research
JF - Clinical nursing research
IS - 7
ER -