ArticlePreventing chronic disease2009
Family history of diabetes: exploring perceptions of people at risk in the Netherlands.
Article in Preventing chronic disease, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.
- Perception of inherited risk in type 2 diabetes: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- Impact of delivery models on understanding genomic risk for type 2 diabetes.Public health genomics · 2014Trial
- Using web-based familial risk information for diabetes prevention: a randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2013Trial
- Impact of communicating familial risk of diabetes on illness perceptions and self-reported behavioral outcomes: a randomized controlled trial.Diabetes care · 2009Trial
- The perception of diabetes risk in minor children among parents with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a qualitative study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Are Malaysian Type 2 Diabetes patients willing to be trained to speak to their offspring about risk of diabetes and preventive measures?BMC family practice · 2020Article
- All things considered, my risk for diabetes is medium: A risk personalization process of familial risk for type 2 diabetes.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2020Article
- Lay perceptions and illness experiences of people with type 2 diabetes in Indonesia: a qualitative study.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2019Article
- How lay people understand and make sense of personalized disease risk information.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2017Article
- Talking About Type 2 Diabetes: Family Communication From the Perspective of At-Risk Relatives.The Diabetes educator · 2015Article
- Risk perception is not associated with attendance at a preventive intervention for type 2 diabetes mellitus among South Asians at risk of diabetes.Public health nutrition · 2015Observational
- Public attitudes towards genetic testing revisited: comparing opinions between 2002 and 2010.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2013Article
- Genetic and lifestyle causal beliefs about obesity and associated diseases among ethnically diverse patients: a structured interview study.Public health genomics · 2013Article
- Health beliefs among individuals at increased familial risk for type 2 diabetes: implications for prevention.Diabetes research and clinical practice · 2012Article
- Concerns about inherited risk of breast cancer prior to diagnosis in Japanese patients with breast complaints.Familial cancer · 2011Article
- Causal beliefs and perceptions of risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease, The Netherlands, 2007.Preventing chronic disease · 2011Article
- "I am pregnant and my husband has diabetes. Is there a risk for my child?" A qualitative study of questions asked by email about the role of genetic susceptibility to diabetes.BMC public health · 2010Article
- Using family history information to promote healthy lifestyles and prevent diseases; a discussion of the evidence.BMC public health · 2010Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
introductionThe aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of causes, risk, and control with regard to diabetes and the role of family history among people at increased risk for type 2 diabetes.
methodsSemistructured interviews were conducted among people aged 57 to 72 years with (n = 9) and without (n = 12) a family history of diabetes.
resultsParticipants mentioned different causes for diabetes; these were often a combination of genetic and behavioral factors. Some participants with a family history expressed incoherent causal beliefs; their general ideas about the causes of diabetes did not explain why their relatives were affected. The role of genetics as a cause for diabetes was more pronounced when people perceived diabetes as "running in the family," and this finding did not necessarily relate to a high number of affected relatives. Although people with a family history were aware of the diabetes in their family, they did not always associate their family history with increased risk, nor did they worry about getting diabetes. The absence of diabetes in the family was often used as a reason to perceive a low risk. Participants who primarily perceived genetic predisposition as a cause felt less able to prevent getting diabetes.
conclusionFuture diabetes prevention strategies would benefit from giving more attention to individual perceptions, especially in the context of family history, explaining the multifactorial character of diabetes, and highlighting effective ways to reduce the risk.
Indexed as
Identifiers
19288997PMC2687860W2143723932What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.