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Factors that Influence Type II Diabetes

AAP Influenza Immunization Focus Group - Families of CYSHCN

Rutgers University is partnering with Family Voices to learn what families know about the development of Type 2 diabetes in children in teens. This includes:
  • Community factors 
  • Individual behaviors 
  • Preferred language for discussing children's and teens' weight
  • The medical tests they would agree to for their children or teens
Please take 3 minutes to answer the following questions.
You will not be asked for any identifying information. 
Your responses will be used to help design the project.
1.Community factors make a big difference in which kids/teens gets type 2 diabetes.
2.Having excess weight increases the risk of kids and teens getting type 2 diabetes.
3.The word obese is not a nice word to use when talking about kids and teens.
4.Doing exercise and being physically fit decreases the risk for a child or teen to get type 2 diabetes.
5.In my neighborhood, there are safe places for kids to play actively outside.
6.Good health care can prevent type 2 diabetes.
7.Knowing what can lead to type 2 diabetes can help families to prevent their children and teens getting it.
8.If I knew my child was at high risk for type 2 diabetes and there was something I could do to prevent it, I would do it.
9.Stress is an important part of why children get type 2 diabetes.
10.I am comfortable with a blood test being part of a study of type 2 diabetes in children and teens.
11.I am comfortable with a saliva test being part of a study of type 2 diabetes in children and teens.
12.I am comfortable with my child/teen using a special swab like a Q-tip to collect a little poo for a test of the bacteria in their body as part of a study of type 2 diabetes in children and teens.
13.I am comfortable with having the study measure my child/teen’s height, weight, and blood pressure as part of a study of type 2 diabetes in children and teens.
14.Type 2 diabetes is an important topic to study.
15.The study should ask details about the neighborhood.
16.The study should look at issues families might face about access to enough food.
17.Researchers should communicate their findings back to the communities where the study participants live.
18.What else would be important for the researchers to know as they study which children and teens are at highest risk of getting Type 2 diabetes?


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