Purpose The purpose of this systematic review is to evaluate the effectiveness of tailoring community-based diabetes intervention to Asian immigrant cultures. The Cochrane processes and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses recommendations guided this systematic review. PubMed, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Ovid, and PsycINFO were searched for analyses and syntheses of primary research published since 2000 that described interventions tailored for the cultures of Asian immigrants with diabetes. This search yielded a total of 9 articles published from 2005 to 2013. The Amsterdam-Maastricht Consensus List for Quality Assessment was used to assess the quality of the studies. Retrieved studies’ populations were foreign-born adults >50 years of age with type 2 diabetes. The review revealed that culturally tailored diabetes programs are effective at improving patients’ objectively measured clinical outcomes, in particular A1C levels, and psychobehavioral outcomes. Patients were also highly satisfied with bilingual health care providers and bilingual educational programs. There is strong evidence of the effectiveness of tailoring diabetes interventions to Asian immigrant populations’ cultures. Further studies, including longitudinal studies and studies with rigorous research designs that subclassify Asian immigrants, are needed to encourage the implementation of culturally tailored diabetes intervention for this ethnic minority. © 2014, SAGE Publications. All rights reserved.

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Community Health Services community care minority group Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 human epidemiology Asian continental ancestry group statistics and numerical data hemoglobin A1c protein, human language Cultural Competency ethnology cultural competence Patient Education as Topic quality of life United States Humans migrant glycosylated hemoglobin psychology Hemoglobin A, Glycosylated Minority Groups Emigrants and Immigrants cultural factor Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice standards patient education organization and management program evaluation health education patient attitude Cultural Characteristics Patient Acceptance of Health Care Healthcare Disparities health care disparity attitude to health