Societal Barometer:
94% of Americans consider diabetes a serious national health issue.

To provide a comprehensive overview of the country’s knowledge, perceptions and attitudes of diabetes, Gallup® conducted 2,015 interviews in the US with the adult general public. Samples for this survey included both random-digit dial (RDD) sampling as well as a nationally representative sample of US adults. This also included an oversampling of specific demographics, allowing for greater analysis among populations more at risk for diabetes than average. KRC Research provided advanced statistical analysis using the Gallup® dataset to provide more comprehensive coverage of the country’s knowledge and behaviors regarding diabetes.

Questions in this survey covered a range of topics including, among other topics, personal awareness of diabetes, its risk factors and complications; ways to prevent the disease; systems changes to improve diabetes prevention and treatment and necessary leadership leaded.

Among the key findings:

• An overwhelming majority of Americans (94%) consider diabetes a serious national health issue
• Half of Americans report feeling affected by diabetes (1 in 2 households)
• Nearly 2 in 5 (39%) indicate someone in their immediate family has diabetes
• The majority of Americans (83%) believe a person can do things to prevent diabetes
• Schools should be required to educate children about health lifestyles (94% agree)

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