Patient Voices: Doctors and Diabetes Management.

Objective: To assess the challenges of managing diabetes experienced by clients of a community-based social services organization via qualitative interviews; to develop recommendations for more effective diabetes education programming at the organization based on themes identified in the interviews.

Methods: Staff at Progreso Latino in Central Falls recruited clients with diabetes and prediabetes to participate in interviews during the summer of 2019. Each interview used a structured question set and was conducted in the participant's preferred language of Spanish or English.