Discovering the research priorities of people with diabetes in a multicultural community

摘要

The paper by Brown et al1 is a much needed piece of research in an area that has been neglected by funding bodies in the past.1 However, despite its patient-centredness, it is still not truly ethnocentric #x02014; as far as readers could tell, the ethnicity of the #x02018;Asian#x02019; focus groups was not clarified. As there are big differences between #x02018;Asian#x02019; or #x02018;South Asian#x02019; communities2 (usually defined as people originating from the Indian sub-continent), either of which should be defined in a paper, it is currently considered more culturally sensitive to identify groups by their own specified ethinicity.3,4 It would not alter the word count to use, say, #x02018;Pakistani#x02019; instead of #x02018;Asian#x02019; and is far more specific.