Challenges in Type 2 Diabetes Prevention among Senior High School Students: A Qualitative Study.
Nila Kusumawati, Syafrisar Meri Agritubella, Alice Rosy and 2 others
PMID 39161866WHAT IT FOUND
Senior high schools did not design diabetes prevention programs.
Health centre visits focused on collecting measurements and brief counselling without follow-up, curriculum, materials, or canteen rules. Students, staff, parents, and canteen tenants lacked diabetes knowledge.
Key findings
01No school had designed its own diabetes prevention program, and students and parents were not contacted after health centre visits.
02Administrators, school health staff, canteen tenants, students, and parents had poor awareness or knowledge about diabetes.
03Schools lacked diabetes prevention policies in curricula, canteens, and school health service offices.
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What it does not show
Participants were only from public senior high schools in rural Kampar Regency, so the findings may not apply to urban schools or private schools. Districts and schools were selected for access, and participants were chosen by purposeful sampling. The study included only four students and three parents, so student and parent views may not represent all adolescents and families. It reports perceptions and documents, not measured diabetes outcomes or tested prevention programs. The researchers were Indonesian nursing faculty with a health education background, and they tried to control this with a reflexive journal.
Declared interests
The supplied publication types list research support from a non-U.S. government. The article text does not name a funder or declare author conflicts.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that school-based diabetes prevention programs do not work or that adding school nurses will prevent diabetes. This qualitative study reports perceived challenges and missing policies, not patient outcomes or tested effects.