This small qualitative study, conducted through the University of Mauritius, examined healthcare professionals’ engagement with and willingness to recommend alternative therapies (AT) for adjunctive management of diabetes, particularly type 2 diabetes. Fifteen (15) healthcare practitioners were selected to participate, completing a questionnaire regarding their opinions about the appropriateness of AT to support type 2 diabetes patients. The results highlight nutritionists’ and dieticians’ relative familiarity with AT, for personal use and with clinic patients. However, nurses and medical doctors were often sceptical, unwilling to discuss or recommend AT, and knew little about potential benefits. There appears an emerging need to improve training of Mauritian healthcare professionals regarding AT, to improve their ability to provide up-to-date clinical information to the many diabetic patients in the community who often use AT.

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