AAPCHO, in collaboration with our member centers and partnering community organizations, has conducted needs assessment activities with Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities in California, Hawaii Massachusetts, New York and Washington. The objective of this project was to gather information on diabetes as it relates to AAPIs, assess their current level of understanding regarding the disease, and to ensure that the diverse needs of AAPIs are included in implementing diabetes awareness activities in AAPI communities. Ten sites were selected to conduct community discussion groups with AAPIs living with diabetes and key informant interviews with community leaders and health care professionals serving these communities. The needs assessment activities were conducted with the following ethnicities: Native Hawaiian, Samoan, Micronesian, Chinese, Korean, South Asian, Vietnamese, Cambodian and Filipino. To ensure consistency in questions and procedures at each site, a standard instrument was utilized for community discussion groups and key informant interviews. In addition, AAPCHO staff provided technical assistance and a half-day training for participating member centers and community organizations. A total of 13 community discussion groups and 33 key informant interviews were conducted. The results will provide information regarding culturally appropriate messages and approaches for preventing and managing diabetes in selected AAPI communities. Results will also identify gaps between people living with diabetes and health care providers' perception of the self-management of diabetes in these communities. The results will be used in implementing culturally and linguistically appropriate diabetes awareness activities to prevent and manage diabetes in AAPIs.
Learning Objectives: To identify community strategies to increase diabetes awareness in Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities
Keywords: Asian and Pacific Islander, Diabetes
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.