OBJECTIVES: @entity1 from Minority Ethnic groups tend to present late to @entity303 services, often in crisis. Culture-specific barriers to help-seeking seem to underlie this. We sought to determine these barriers to timely help-seeking for @entity303 among @entity1 from South Asian backgrounds and what the features of an intervention to overcome them would be. STUDY DESIGN: Qualitative study to delineate barriers to and facilitators of help-seeking for South Asian adults with @entity303 through focus groups and individual interviews. SETTING: Community settings in and around Greater London. @entity1 : To achieve a maximum variation sample, we purposively recruited 53 English or Bengali speaking South Asian adults without a known diagnosis of @entity303 through community centres and snowballing. RESULTS: @entity1 ranged in age from 18 to 83   years, were mostly female and were 60% Bangladeshi. We recruited @entity1 from different religions and occupational backgrounds and included those with experience of caring for someone with @entity303 as well as those without this experience. @entity1 identified four main barriers to timely diagnosis: barriers to help-seeking for @entity2414 ; the threshold for seeking help for @entity2414 ; ways to overcome barriers to help-seeking; what features an educational resource should have. CONCLUSIONS: We have identified the features of an intervention with the potential to improve timely @entity303 diagnosis in South Asians. The next steps are to devise and test such an intervention.

What would encourage help-seeking for XXXX among UK-based South Asians? A qualitative study.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['People', 'Participants', 'PARTICIPANTS', 'people'] @entity2414 :: ('MESH:D008569', 'Disease') :: ['memory problems'] @entity303 :: ('MESH:D003704', 'Disease') :: ['dementia']
@entity2414 :: (MESH:D008569,Disease) :: ['memory problems']
