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An 8 page research paper that addresses the topic of adult health instruction and the barriers inherent in designing interventions to teach diabetic low=literacy Hispanics. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_khdllhis.rtf
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which tells her what to do to promote her health and manage her diabetes, totally virtually unintelligible to her. This patient is one of the 44 million Americans who either
have low-literacy skills or are illiterate (Smith, 2003). Now consider this predicament and combine it with the reality that there are many immigrants who not only have low literacy skills,
but low English comprehension. This is the problem that many nurses face daily in their practice. The obstacles to promoting adult health literacy are also compounded with such intervention addresses
a chronic and widespread condition such as type 2 diabetes. Harrington (2008) indicates that Latino/Hispanic young people have the highest incidence of overweight/obesity in the country. This trend is
associated with the degree of acculturation to American society, as second and third generation Latinos are at greater risk for being obese than are first-generation children (Harrington, 2008). This problem
has increased among Latino children and teens by 120 percent over just the last two decades (Harrington, 2008). Currently type 2 diabetes affects 9.5 percent of the Latino population who
are the age of 20 and "its prevalence is increasing" (Loris, et al, 2008, p. 408). In order to stem the tide of diabetes among diabetes among this population, as
well as aid those Latinos/Hispanics who have been diagnosed with diabetes, nurses have to confront the problems involved with poor English comprehension, which are often accompanied by low literacy skills
as well, which means that even with educational materials are available in Spanish, they do not help nurses in their therapeutic goals with illiterate patients. Background, history and the
goals of patient education From at least the 1950, perhaps earlier, until the 1970s, patients, when they were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, "and certainly those with type 1 diabetes,"
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