Teenagers’ future diabetes risk perception
1 International Research Institute of North Carolina, USA.
2 Duke University, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Global Health, USA.
Research Article
World Journal of Biology Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 2024, 18(01), 233–239.
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjbphs.2024.18.1.0194
Publication history:
Received on 02 March 2024; revised on 10 April 2024; accepted on 12 April 2024
Abstract:
Asians are often thought to have a poor ability to predict their future risk of diabetes. We studied perceptions of Type 2 diabetes future risk in middle school and high school students. All students watched two short videos about Body Mass Index (BMI) and diabetes. Afterwards, 300 students, ranging from 7th to 10th graders, took a short survey in their physical education classes. The survey gauged basic knowledge about diabetes, BMI, their view on their future risk of diabetes and asked them about various risk factors. Contrary to common thought, Asian students understood that they might have a higher risk than their non-Asian counterparts, and many responses in the survey suggest that they knew about diet differences and other cultural factors that account for the difference in risk.
Keywords:
Diabetes; Youth; Asian Diabetes Risk; Body Mass Index; Risk Factors
Full text article in PDF:
Copyright information:
Copyright © 2024 Author(s) retain the copyright of this article. This article is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Liscense 4.0