In a world first, Diabetes Australia Analysis Program (DARP) funding has supported analysis into diabetes self-management utilizing a Pasifika Indigenous method. This system has proven the significance of culturally particular packages delivered by the group.
This research, led by Dr Heena Akbar, applied a 24-week intervention for 50 Māori and Pasifika girls with kind 2 diabetes to check their self-management.
The latest launch of digital tales from the Pasifika Girls’s Diabetes Wellness Program at Queensland College of Expertise (QUT) highlighted these brave girls sharing their diabetes journey and their tradition in an actual and interesting means.
The launch marks over a decade of group growth and Pasifika-led group analysis highlighting the significance of addressing public well being points comparable to diabetes, which disproportionately impacts Māori and Pasifika communities.
The result’s a culturally inclusive and responsive program co-designed and developed by Māori and Pasifika girls with lived expertise of the situation.
“This analysis has meant quite a bit to us as a group. It has been an important journey with an excellent consequence, which I imagine might be impactful for our group,” Dr Akbar stated.
Diabetes Australia Group CEO Justine Cain congratulated Dr Akbar and her crew.
“Diabetes analysis adjustments lives and that was evident within the latest launch of those digital tales,” Ms Cain stated.
“Diabetes Australia is proud to have offered funding to help Dr Akbar to undertake this analysis which is exclusive to Māori and Pasifika communities in Queensland.”
