Healthcare behavior, information about diabetes risk, and beliefs on health and diabetes across categories of actual diabetes risk among adults without diagnosed diabetes from a nationwide population-based study in Germany (n=2327)
| Total | Categories of actual diabetes risk | P for trend | ||||
| Low risk (<2%) | Still low risk (2% to <5%) | Elevated risk (5% to <10%) | High risk (≥10%) | |||
| Preventive healthcare behavior | ||||||
| ‘Health check-up 35’ in last 2 years (%) | ||||||
| Yes | 37.0 | 28.0 | 45.3 | 49.3 | 56.9 | <0.0001 |
| No | 14.7 | 12.6 | 18.9 | 20.8 | 14.1 | 0.12 |
| Don’t know this recommendation | 24.0 | 19.1 | 34.7 | 29.9 | 28.3 | 0.0002 |
| Not relevant as aged below 35 years | 24.2 | 40.3 | 1.1 | – | 0.7 | <0.0001 |
| Last blood glucose measurement (%) | ||||||
| Within last 12 months | 60.7 | 51.6 | 66.3 | 74.5 | 82.7 | <0.0001 |
| ≥1 year ago | 27.9 | 33.7 | 25.3 | 18.3 | 13.5 | <0.0001 |
| Never | 11.4 | 14.7 | 8.4 | 7.2 | 3.8 | 0.0002 |
| Information about diabetes risk | ||||||
| Informed from physician about increased diabetes risk (%) | 6.1 | 3.8 | 5.4 | 8.1 | 15.3 | <0.0001 |
| Actively informed about diabetes by oneself (%) | 30.3 | 31.2 | 30.2 | 31.5 | 25.8 | 0.23 |
| Occupational relation to diabetes topic (%) | 18.9 | 22.2 | 13.2 | 17.2 | 12.9 | 0.001 |
| Beliefs on health and diabetes | ||||||
| Very good or good subjective health (%) | 72.7 | 81.2 | 67.4 | 58.5 | 53.3 | <0.0001 |
| Perceived seriousness of diabetes (%) | ||||||
| Very serious or serious | 65.2 | 60.9 | 70.1 | 72.4 | 72.1 | 0.001 |
| Moderately or not serious | 22.1 | 25.0 | 21.0 | 14.3 | 16.7 | 0.001 |
| No opinion | 12.7 | 14.0 | 8.9 | 13.3 | 11.2 | 0.38 |
| Belief in general control of diabetes risk (%)* | 23.0 | 22.6 | 18.9 | 23.6 | 28.9 | 0.20 |
| Belief in personal control of diabetes risk (%)* | 9.7 | 8.5 | 8.9 | 10.0 | 15.3 | 0.06 |
| Very good or good perceived knowledge about diabetes (%) | 56.4 | 54.0 | 59.1 | 64.2 | 57.8 | 0.12 |
Data are given as weighted percentage.
*Based on response ‘fully agree’ or ‘agree’.