If I am going to get diabetes, there is not much I can do about it. R-I think that my personal efforts will help control my risks of getting diabetes. …
Risk perception and risk perception modifiers among women with histories of
gestational diabetes | |
|R indicates that the item needs to be reverse scored |Cronbach|
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|Risk perception modifiers | |
|Diabetes risk knowledge-risk of getting diabetes sum of |070 |
|correct responses | |
| Being Asian-American | |
| Being Caucasian white | |
| Eating a healthy diet | |
| Being Black or African-American | |
| Being Hispanic | |
| Having had diabetes during pregnancy | |
| Having a blood relative with diabetes | |
| Being 65 years of age or older | |
| Exercising regularly | |
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Being American Indian | |
| Controlling weight gain | |
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|Personal control average the Likert scores |072 |
| I feel that I have little control over risks to my | |
|health | |
| If I am going to get diabetes, there is not much I can | |
|do about it | |
| R-I think that my personal efforts will help control my| |
|risks of getting diabetes | |
| R-People who make a good effort to control the risks of| |
|getting diabetes are | |
| much less likely to get diabetes | |
| | |
|Optimistic bias average the Likert scores |065 |
| R-Compared to other women of my same age, I am less | |
|likely than they are
| |
| to get diabetes | |
| R-Compared to other women of my same age, I am less | |
|likely than they are | |
| to get a serious disease | |
| | |
|Benefits and barriers of preventive behaviors average the |not |
|Likert scores |applicabl|
| |e |
| Doing regular exercise and following a diet take a lot | |
|of effort | |
| R-Benefits of following a diet and exercise program | |
|outweigh the effort to do it | |
| R-Regular exercise and diet may prevent diabetes from | |
|developing | |
| | |
|Risk perception assessment | |
|What do
you think your risk or chance is for getting | |
|diabetes over the next 10 years? | |
| Almost no chance, slight chance, moderate chance, high | |
|chance | |
| | |
|Modified risk perception assessment | |
|If you dont change your lifestyle behaviors, such as diet | |
|or exercise, | |
|what do you think your risk or chance is for getting | |
|diabetes over the next 10 years? | |
| Almost no chance, slight chance, moderate chance, high | |
|chance | |
| | |
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