Knowledge and practice: the risk of cardiovascular disease among Asian Indians. Results from focus groups conducted in Asian Indian communities in Northern California.
Knowledge and practice: the risk of cardiovascular disease among Asian Indians. Results from focus groups conducted in Asian Indian communities in Northern California.
复制标题
知识与实践：亚洲印度人患心血管疾病的风险。
作者：
P. Kalra;S. Srinivasan;S. Ivey;K. Greenlund
目的
焦点小组被用来收集亚洲印度社区内的心血管风险的看法的信息，并确定机会，为亚洲印度社区设计健康促进和干预计划。
设计
定性方法被用来获得心血管疾病的风险在3个亚洲印度社区的看法。八个焦点小组以英语或旁遮普语进行。
设置
这些焦点小组作为为期3年的社区参与性研究项目的一部分进行，该项目旨在研究北方加州亚洲印第安人人群中的心血管风险因素。
参与者
焦点小组的参与者是通过社区组织、当地社区中心和企业的推荐而选出的。57名男性和女性被招募使用雪球抽样。
结果
焦点小组提出了六个主题：心血管疾病的知识，有关饮食的健康和文化问题，身体活动水平，压力作为心血管疾病的一个因素，文化适应问题和心血管预防思想。
结论
焦点小组的使用是一种有效的方法，收集信息的心血管疾病的风险，并收集这些亚洲印度社区内的风险行为的信息。在这项研究中，我们发现，心理社会和文化因素，特别是文化问题的压力和文化适应，出现在所有8个焦点小组的关键要素。
OBJECTIVE
The focus groups were utilized to gather information on the perceptions of cardiovascular risk within the Asian Indian community, and to identify opportunities to design health promotion and intervention programs for Asian Indian communities.
DESIGN
Qualitative methods were utilized to obtain perceptions of cardiovascular risk within 3 Asian Indian communities. Eight focus groups were conducted in either English or Punjabi.
SETTING
These focus groups were conducted as part of a 3-year community-based participatory research project examining cardiovascular risk factors among the Asian Indian population in Northern California.
PARTICIPANTS
Focus group participants were selected through referrals from community-based organizations, postings in local community centers, and businesses. Fifty-seven men and women were recruited using snowball sampling.
RESULTS
Six themes emerged from the focus groups: knowledge of cardiovascular disease, health and cultural concerns regarding diet, physical activity levels, stress as a factor for cardiovascular disease, acculturation concerns, and cardiovascular prevention ideas.
CONCLUSIONS
The use of focus groups was an effective method for gathering information on perceptions of cardiovascular risk, and collecting information on risk behaviors within these Asian Indian communities. In this study, we found that psychosocial and cultural factors, especially cultural issues concerning stress and acculturation, surfaced as key elements across all 8 focus groups.
对亚洲印度人和美国同龄人的 Lp[a] 和其他 CHD 独立危险因素进行评估。
影响因子：
6.5
作者：
Hoogeveen,RC;Gambhir,JK;Gambhir,DS;Kimball,KT;Ghazzaly,K;Gaubatz,JW;Vaduganathan,M;Rao,RS;Koschinsky,M;Morrisett,JD
通讯作者：
Morrisett,JD