التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Diabetes management in the face of adversity: Experiences of asylum‐seekers in Belgian reception centres. |
| المؤلفون: |
Van Hemelrijck, Wanda Monika Johanna, Vandenheede, Hadewijch, Argeseanu Cunningham, Solveig |
| المصدر: |
Diabetic Medicine; Apr2022, Vol. 39 Issue 4, p1-11, 11p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
DIAGNOSIS of diabetes, DIET therapy for diabetes, MEDICAL quality control, HEALTH services accessibility, PSYCHOLOGY of refugees, NUTRITION, INTERVIEWING, DIABETES, RESEARCH funding, DESCRIPTIVE statistics, DISEASE management |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
BELGIUM |
| مستخلص: |
Background: Diabetes poses a heavy burden on patients due to its progressive and chronic nature; it requires continuous management to promote a high‐quality and long life. Disease management is especially challenging in emergency settings. We examined how displaced people with diabetes experienced managing their illness before and throughout the process of fleeing their home communities and seeking resettlement in Europe. Design: We designed an interview instrument with closed‐ and open‐ended questions about diabetes diagnosis and management before fleeing the home country, during migration, stays in transit countries and reception in the European Union. We interviewed 20 asylum‐seekers living in Belgian reception centres with diagnosed diabetes mellitus. Results: Primary topics emerging from interviews were availability, accessibility, and quality. Belgium was described as a setting with high availability, accessibility and quality of diabetes management components (medication, tools, care) compared with other settings before and during migration. Even in Belgium, maintaining a healthy diet as an asylum‐seeker was difficult. Other concerns such as safety, other health issues and the asylum request itself often outweighed diabetes management. Conclusions: Displaced people in non‐Western countries need attention for nutrition and diabetes medicine, so aid agencies should consider providing for those needs. For people seeking asylum in the West and living in temporary facilities, care should be paid to the dietary options available for those with diabetes. For irregular migrants, diabetes can be deadly, and resources should be made available for their basic diabetes needs, even if they are not eligible for regular health services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| قاعدة البيانات: |
Complementary Index |
