Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
J Health Psychol. 2012 Mar;17(2):285-96. doi: 10.1177/1359105311412840. Epub 2011 Jun 27.
This study aimed to determine how college students perceive their risk of developing diabetes over their life course, with specific emphasis on their beliefs about the influence of inherited versus behavioral risk factors. A bivariate ordered probit regression model was used to simultaneously predict perceived risk for 10-year absolute risk of diabetes and lifetime absolute risk of diabetes. Ten-year and lifetime absolute risk were both increased when the respondent self-identified with a race/ethnicity other than non-Hispanic white (β = 0.42, p < .001 and β = 0.33, p = .004, respectively), and when the respondent had an increasing number of family members with diabetes (β = 0.33, p < .001 and β = 0.45, p < .001, respectively). Beliefs linking behavioral risk factors to perceived risk of developing diabetes across the life course were not statistically significant. The absence of significant association between perceptions of behavioral risk as factors for developing diabetes and perceived risk for diabetes over the life course supports the need for educational interventions about behavioral and genetic causes of diabetes among the college-aged population.
本研究旨在确定大学生如何看待他们在整个生命过程中患糖尿病的风险，特别关注他们对遗传和行为风险因素影响的信念。使用双变量有序概率回归模型同时预测 10 年绝对糖尿病风险和终生绝对糖尿病风险的感知风险。当被调查者自认为是非西班牙裔白人以外的种族/民族（β=0.42，p<.001 和β=0.33，p=0.004），或者被调查者有越来越多的家庭成员患有糖尿病（β=0.33，p<.001 和β=0.45，p<.001）时，10 年和终生的绝对风险都会增加。将行为风险因素与整个生命过程中患糖尿病的风险联系起来的信念在统计学上并不显著。在行为风险因素对糖尿病发病风险的认知与整个生命过程中对糖尿病发病风险的认知之间没有显著关联，这表明需要在大学生群体中开展关于糖尿病的行为和遗传原因的教育干预。
