Resumen de Cultural Translation of Interventions: Diabetes Care in American Samoa.
Judith D. DePue, Rochelle K. Rosen, Marian Batts-Turner, Nicole Bereolos, Meaghan House, Rachel Forster Held, Ofeira Nu'usolia, John Tuitele, Michael G. Goldstein, Stephen T. McGarvey
Translation of research advances into clinical practice for at-risk communities is important to eliminate disease disparities. Adult type 2 diabetes prevalence in the US territory of American Samoa is 21.5%, but little intervention research has been carried out there. We discuss our experience with cultural translation, drawing on an emerging implementation science, which aims to build a knowledge base on adapting interventions to real-world settings. We offer examples from our behavioral intervention study, Diabetes Care in American Samoa, which was adapted from Project Sugar 2, a nurse and community health worker intervention to support diabetes self-management among urban African Americans. The challenges we experienced and solutions we used may inform adaptations of interventions in other settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
