Designing health promoting lifestyle educational content using photovoice qualitative approach in pre-diabetic people: A community-based participatory research

Diabetes and its chronic complications is one of the major public health issues worldwide. The present study aimed to use photovoice in pre-diabetic people to design health promoting lifestyle educational content. :.

This community-based participatory research was performed on 40 pre-diabetic participants in Hoveizeh health centers, Khozestan Province, Iran in 2018. Photovoice was used to better understand pre-diabetic adults about their experiences. Focus groups and semi-structured interviews were used for data collection. All data were recorded and analyzed through content analysis based on narratives.

Data analysis revealed four main themes including daily living needs, neglect of the disease, education and provision of health care, lack of support to adapt physical environment.

In designing educational content, it is necessary to place more emphasis on the four main themes extracted from the experiences of pre-diabetic people in order to provide more comprehensive services by health care personnel.