Table 1.

Cultural Structure of Health and Diabetes: Questioning Guide for Interviewing Oklahoma American Indian Women about Cultural Perceptions of Health and Diabetes, 2003

1.	Describe your current health to me.
2.	Describe how you feel about your health.
3.	What, if any, health concerns do you have?
4.	What are the major health concerns of other Indian women you know?
5.	What do you think is the leading cause of death for Indian women in the United States?
6.	What comes to mind when I mention diabetes?
7.	Let's discuss diabetes a bit. What do you think causes a person to get diabetes? Why do you think these things (mentioned above) cause diabetes? If eating right, describe how people should eat. What keeps people from eating right? If exercise, what should they do and how often? What keeps people from getting exercise? How did you find the information that you just told me?
8.	What do you think happens to a woman once she develops diabetes?
9.	Can you think of anyone who is at risk for developing diabetes? (Is he or she Indian?)
10.	How can a person tell if he or she has diabetes? How do they feel?
11.	Tell me about anything that you know of that might keep a woman from developing diabetes. Why do you think these things (mentioned above) prevent diabetes? Where did you find this information? If read, where? Books, magazines (which ones)? If heard, where? From whom?
12.	What may prevent a woman from doing the things that may prevent diabetes?
13.	What treatments are there for diabetes that you know about? If diet, describe the diet.
14.	Who are you concerned about developing diabetes? What are the reasons that you are concerned about this person(s)?
15.	What can parents or family do to help prevent this person/child from developing diabetes?
16.	What can the tribe or community do to help prevent this person/child from developing diabetes?
17.	How do you feel about diabetes?
18.	What is your greatest fear about diabetes?
19.	What control do you think a person has over diabetes?
20.	Can you prevent diabetes? When can a person begin to do these things to prevent diabetes?
21.	How would you describe a traditional (Indian) diet (the old way of eating)? What would you think of shifting the diet back toward the old ways Indians used to eat? Do you think eating a more traditional diet would help Indians prevent diabetes?
22.	Is there anything else would you like to tell me about diabetes?