Two recent grounded theory studies on decision making during MI,Swedish study including men and a Turkish study including both men and women, found that symptoms varied and that intense symptoms and a feeling of threat or fear contributed to the decision to
seek care,whereas difficulty interpreting the symptoms was a barrier to care-seeking. The participants in these studies also performed different self-care activities to
manage the symptoms before care-seeking. Many of the findings in our study are similar with these results and with results from several other studies on
care-seeking processes in MI patients. We can therefore assume that the process of careseeking for MI in people with diabetes is similar to that for those without diabetes