Diabetes mellitus management - cultural, linguistic, and religious influences on management, such as traditional foods, attitudes to weight, and fasting periods
Principles
- Diabetes education and management should be adapted to the patient's cultural, linguistic, and religious context - traditional dietary patterns, attitudes toward illness and self-management, and religious practices (e.g. fasting periods such as Ramadan) all require specific, individualised accommodation rather than generic advice assuming a single cultural default
- Relevant across increasingly culturally diverse patient populations in most healthcare settings, with mismatched, culturally non-specific advice being a recognised contributor to poor engagement and outcomes in diverse communities
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