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Perceived barriers to managing medications and solutions to barriers suggested by Bhutanese former refugees and service providers
Method: Thirty Bhutanese former refugees and service providers recruited through community health programs participated in a community-based participatory research design. Data were elicited through a structured focus group process and analyzed using content analysis.
Results: Perceived barriers to managing medications included language barriers, low health literacy, and culturally unresponsive interactions with services. Themes identifying potential solutions to barriers referred to the functional health literacy of individuals (providing reassurance, checking understanding, and involving support networks) and creating supportive health care environments (consistent service providers, culturally responsive care, assistance navigating services, using trained interpreters).
Discussion: Creating environments conducive to interactive and critical health literacy about medications is as important for culturally congruent care as supporting the functional health literacy of individuals.
Funding
Tasmanian Community Fund
History
Publication title
Journal of Transcultural NursingVolume
29Issue
6Pagination
570-577ISSN
1043-6596Department/School
Tasmanian School of MedicinePublisher
Sage Publications, Inc.Place of publication
United StatesRights statement
Copyright 2018 The Author(s)Repository Status
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