Community Based Participatory Research With Immigrant Chinese With Diabetes

The proposed project is part of a program of research to improve management of type 2
diabetes (T2DM) through a community-academic partnership that addresses cultural factors in
disease management. Specific aims are to: 1. Strengthen a community-academic partnership
with the immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco to improve diabetes management; 2.
Adapt and test a behavioral diabetes intervention, Coping Skills Training, to addresses
family and cultural issues in immigrant Chinese patients with T2DM; and 3. Disseminate the
adapted Coping Skills Training Program findings via the community-academic partnership to
the immigrant Chinese American community through service programs, ethnic media, and
professional/scientific publications. A mixed-methods CBPR approach will be used to
interpretively adapt a behavioral intervention to be culturally appropriate, and test its
efficacy using a repeated measures design. Two historically significant social service and
health agencies serving immigrant Chinese in San Francisco are collaborating with this
nurse-led interdisciplinary research team.