Resumen de Testing the efficacy of culturally adapted coping skills training for Chinese American immigrants with type 2 diabetes using community-based participatory research.

Catherine A. Chesla, Kevin M. Chun, Christine M.L. Kwan, Joseph T. Mullan, Yulanda Kwong, Lydia Hsu, Peggy Huang, Lisa A. Strycker, Tina Shum, Diana To, Rudy Kao, Catherine M. Waters

• Chinese Americans demonstrate greater prevalence of diabetes than non-Hispanic whites and find standard diabetes care disregards their cultural health beliefs. Academic researchers and Chinatown agencies collaborated to culturally adapt and test an efficacious cognitive-behavioral intervention using community-based participatory research. Using a delayed-treatment repeated-measures design, 145 adult Chinese immigrants with Type 2 diabetes completed treatment. Immediate benefits of treatment were evident in the improvement (p?