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This study was conducted among Type 2 diabetes patients attending Social Security clinics in Guadalajara, Mexico. The goals were to describe cultural models of diabetes causation, assess gender-related differences, and analyze the relationship between cultural knowledge and the status of diabetes control. In the first stage, open-ended interviews were conducted with 28 participants. On the basis of the themes elicited, a series of scenarios describing the causes of diabetes were constructed. In the second stage of the study, 46 individuals were asked to rate each of the scenarios on a 3-point scale. A cultural consensus model was used to analyze the scenario interviews to evaluate the level of cultural sharing, estimate each individual's level of cultural knowledge, and validate cultural themes about the causes of diabetes. Multiple regression analysis was used to estimate the relationship between cultural …