“…A total of 1897 participants with varied ethnicities, of which 15 were stated and two were unspecified (see Table 3), were recruited from three settings (community, primary care and acute sectors). Nine studies included adults with type 2 diabetes (Greenhalgh et al, 2006(Greenhalgh et al, , 2011Fleming et al, 2008;Lawton et al, 2005Lawton et al, , 2007Lloyd et al, 2008;Kohinor et al, 2011;Duthie-Nurse, 1998;Kelleher and Islam, 1994), two studies involved women with gestational diabetes (Narayan and Rea, 1997;Hjelm et al, 2005), one study included children with type 1 diabetes (Povlsen et al, 2005), four studies included participants with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes (Fagerli et al, 2005;Stone et al, 2005;, and five studies did not specify the diabetes type (Brown et al, 2006;Greenhalgh et al, 1998;Naeem, 2003;Sedgwick et al, 2003;Gonzalez, 2008). The characteristics and cultural and linguistic needs of these populations were varied.…”