Afro-centred Collaborative care: Technology support for Type 2 Diabetes Management in Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Oritsetimeyin Arueyingho · 2024
Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) poses a significant health challenge in Nigeria, requiring long-term community care involving diverse stakeholders. The condition leads to severe health complications exacerbated by suboptimal lifestyle conditions. However, sparse knowledge exists regarding the role of technology in facilitating collaborative T2D care in Nigeria. Additionally, contextual factors, including socio-cultural and demographic influences on the use and adoption of existing T2D technologies, remain poorly understood. Diverse collaborative care approaches involving community pharmacists and caregivers, and context-specific design implications for effective T2D care are also insufficiently documented. Addressing these knowledge gaps, my research project adopts a decolonial Afro-centred perspective to probe the landscape of T2D care involving multiple stakeholders in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Also, I aim to improve research methodologies and design practices for sustained community care, with a focus on co-designing collaborative T2D care interventions.