Table 3 Illustrative quotes about family involvement in DSM
From: Diabetes self-management among Arab Americans: patient and provider perspectives
Theme | Family Support as an Opportunity and Challenge |
|---|---|
Illustrative Quotes | Support from family you know might be something very important you know.… Educating the family members, trying to tell them about something like that. We have this issue going on. Everybody should be involved in this as a family. You know, the good thing about Arabs is that the family ties are pretty good so by educating the family members to help us do the job that’s needed, at least good control. If somebody is always watching what they do, telling them, ‘oh, watch out fruit at night is a bad idea. [Group2: Provider 2] Sometimes they tell you, ‘I want to eat healthy, but my mother puts everything on the table’. If they don’t eat, the mother gets mad. [Group 1: Provider 4] If they don’t allow the family members to help them, ultimately, and I hate to say this…they do fail because they become non-compliant. [Group 1: Provider 1] In our family we do not have diabetes. It is not genetic. However, in 2003 the war on Iraq we saw it live on TV, the bombing, and such, we felt that no one was alive from our families, everyone died. As a result, I got diabetes. My psychological state had an affect. [Group 1: Patient 3] |