Risk, the prediabetes diagnosis and preventive strategies: critical insights from a qualitative study
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Risk, the prediabetes diagnosis and preventive strategies : critical insights from a qualitative study. / Hindhede, Anette Lykke; Aagaard-Hansen, Jens.
In: Critical Public Health, Vol. 25, No. 5, 2015, p. 569-581.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Risk, the prediabetes diagnosis and preventive strategies
T2 - critical insights from a qualitative study
AU - Hindhede, Anette Lykke
AU - Aagaard-Hansen, Jens
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Diagnosis constitutes a major categorisation tool in medicine. This paper adds to the paucity of knowledge about part of the work such a tool performs. It examines the ways in which diabetes epidemiology translates into attempts to prevent diabetes from occurring through screening and diagnosing, and then managing those categorised as ‘at high risk’. Using a qualitative design in the context of a small-scale Danish intervention study, the findings suggest that health professionals overinterpreted relative risk reductions and exaggerated treatment effects; simultaneously, prediabetics called into question the scientifically set thresholds. Nonetheless, arguments concerning changed behaviour’s benefits were sought to be incorporated into self-care routines. The data highlight how, by identifying a normatively set threshold, a diagnosis can determine health promotion messages’ impact in ‘high-risk’ prevention strategies.
AB - Diagnosis constitutes a major categorisation tool in medicine. This paper adds to the paucity of knowledge about part of the work such a tool performs. It examines the ways in which diabetes epidemiology translates into attempts to prevent diabetes from occurring through screening and diagnosing, and then managing those categorised as ‘at high risk’. Using a qualitative design in the context of a small-scale Danish intervention study, the findings suggest that health professionals overinterpreted relative risk reductions and exaggerated treatment effects; simultaneously, prediabetics called into question the scientifically set thresholds. Nonetheless, arguments concerning changed behaviour’s benefits were sought to be incorporated into self-care routines. The data highlight how, by identifying a normatively set threshold, a diagnosis can determine health promotion messages’ impact in ‘high-risk’ prevention strategies.
U2 - 10.1080/09581596.2014.921283
DO - 10.1080/09581596.2014.921283
M3 - Journal article
VL - 25
SP - 569
EP - 581
JO - Critical Public Health
JF - Critical Public Health
SN - 0958-1596
IS - 5
ER -
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