Diabetes mellitus type 2 as a part of daily life Experiences of elderly Bosnian immigrants living in Sweden
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Material and methods: Our study has a qualitative design. Data was collected between March and September 2013 through face-to-face interviews using open-ended questions. A qualitative content analysis method was used for analysis and interpretation of data in accordance with the Graneheim and Lundman method (2004). The participants were eight women and seven men, aged between 50 and 86 years (mean 71.4), emigrated from Bosnia and Herzegovina and diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type 2 in Sweden. They had lived in Sweden between 10 and 18 years.
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