title: [Quality in diabetes mellitus control in Primary Care Units in Mexico. A study of the perspectives of the patient's family].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify the perspectives of the patient's family in the quality of diabetes mellitus control.
  
  
  METHODS
  Qualitative methodology of exploratory design, oriented towards health services research, conducted in 2014 using non-probability sampling.
  
  
  METHODS
  Primary Care Units mainly situated in the state of Tabasco, Mexico.
  
  
  METHODS
  42 family members were selected, who agreed to participate voluntarily in the study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Six focus groups were set up; interview guides and group dynamics were employed. The information was documented, saturated and categorised; the most representative discourses were used, and conclusions reached.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results show a highly critical position of the families as regards the patient, some of which appear justified, and others have a cultural, historical, and to some extent, an ignorance connotation. They have also commented on the health care and the role that patients and families can play, in both cases, also expressed critically.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The family perspectives reveal what they think and feel about diabetes mellitus. It is important to note their lack of support and the content of their expressions due to lack of knowledge of the disease. Their discourses are critical, mythical, and with false beliefs of the fear of being future carriers of the disease. They feel sorry for the patient but they resist taking care of them, and do not want a life with diabetes. The family is the closest support for patients and an invaluable human resource for health services.
authors.affiliation: Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Villahermosa, Tabasco, México; Secretaría de Salud de Tabasco, Villahermosa, Tabasco, México. Electronic address: isaavalos67@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: María Isabel
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Avalos García
authors.affiliation: Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, México.
authors.forename: Concepción
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: López Ramón
authors.affiliation: Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Villahermosa, Tabasco, México.
authors.forename: Manuel Higinio
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Morales García
authors.affiliation: Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Villahermosa, Tabasco, México.
authors.forename: Heberto Romeo
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Priego Álvarez
authors.affiliation: Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, México.
authors.forename: Silvia María Guadalupe
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Garrido Pérez
authors.affiliation: Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Villahermosa, Tabasco, México.
authors.forename: Nelly Ruth
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Cargill Foster
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care
keywords: Control metabólico; Family health; Investigación cualitativa; Metabolic control; Perspectiva; Perspectives; Qualitative research; Salud familiar