Integrative Nutritional Counseling Combining Chinese Medicine and Biomedicine for Chinese Americans with Type 2 Diabetes: A Mixed-Methods Feasibility Study
| العنوان: | Integrative Nutritional Counseling Combining Chinese Medicine and Biomedicine for Chinese Americans with Type 2 Diabetes: A Mixed-Methods Feasibility Study |
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| المؤلفون: | Siyuan Huang, Sonya E. Pritzker, Hilary K. Seligman, Maria T. Chao, Genevieve Leung, Qiao Ruan, Evelyn Y. Ho, Donald Chan, Elaine Hsieh, Han-Lin Chi |
| المصدر: | J Altern Complement Med Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.), vol 27, iss 8 |
| بيانات النشر: | Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | integrative medicine, Counseling, medicine.medical_specialty, mixed methods, Clinical Trials and Supportive Activities, Traditional Chinese medicine, Type 2 diabetes, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Clinical Research, Complementary and Integrative Health, Behavioral and Social Science, medicine, Diabetes Mellitus, Humans, Medicine, Chinese Traditional, Curriculum, Biomedicine, Metabolic and endocrine, Chinese americans, Chinese medicine, Asian, business.industry, Prevention, Diabetes, Chinese Traditional, Original Articles, medicine.disease, 030205 complementary & alternative medicine, Nutritional counseling, Quality Education, nutrition, Complementary and alternative medicine, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Family medicine, Chinese American, Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Medicine, Feasibility Studies, Integrative medicine, type 2 diabetes, business, Type 2 |
| الوصف: | Objectives: This study describes the development and feasibility of Integrative Nutritional Counseling (INC), a Chinese medicine (CM)+biomedicine-based nutrition curriculum for Chinese Americans with type 2 diabetes. Although Chinese Americans often incorporate CM principles into their diet, scant research has explored how to integrate CM with biomedical nutrition standards in a culturally appropriate manner or if such a program could improve diabetes self-management. Design: This is a 1-month pre-post study design including three points of contact: baseline, in-person class, and 1-month follow-up. Subjects: Participants (n = 15) were Cantonese-speaking/reading Chinese Americans diagnosed with type 2 diabetes who had used some form of CM/medicinal foods in the last 12 months. Interventions and Outcome Measures: The INC program included baseline surveys and a CM intake interview conducted by a licensed acupuncturist. The acupuncturist generated a CM diagnosis, which was shared with the participant, and used this diagnosis to tailor brief nutrition education. To bolster this brief education, a bilingual registered dietitian provided a 2-h group education class in Cantonese to all participants, during which time participants also received a Chinese/English INC booklet. Participants completed surveys immediately after the class and at 1-month follow-up, with qualitative exit interviews. Results: Participants reported improved attitudes and dietary habits aligning directly with INC, and improvement in biomedically valued measures of type 2 diabetes, such as weight loss, and CM-valued measures of digestion/elimination and hot/cold feeling. Satisfaction with INC was high, but challenges included confusion with some INC information, structural barriers, and comorbidities. Conclusions: Chinese Americans with type 2 diabetes and interventionists found integrative nutrition approaches acceptable and feasible. Future research should examine INC with a larger population and explore optimal delivery of INC given reported challenges. |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::560f194a7e6ab4e26730f70f829415c2 https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8403176/ |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....560f194a7e6ab4e26730f70f829415c2 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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