Two-stage, school and community-based population screening successfully identifies individuals and families at high-risk for type 2 diabetes: the Feel4Diabetes-study

Table 1 Population reached and screened in the “Feel4Diabetes-study”

Number of	All countries	HICs under austerity measures		LMICs		HICs
Number of	All countries	Greece	Spain	Bulgaria	Hungary	Belgium	Finland
Participating schools	219	56	41	20	14	58	30
Families contacted via participating schools	28,075	5195	4823	6541	2902	5367	3247
Families participated in the “first-stage screening”	11,396	2096	1567	2948	1762	1684	1339
Parents provided completed FINDRISC questionnaires (“first-stage screening”)	20,501	3741	3043	5211	3034	2990	2482
Children measured at school setting (anthropometric indices obtained)	12,194	2286	1703	3034	1867	1798	1506
Families identified as “high risk families” and invited to participate in the “second-stage screening”	4484	907	715	1088	689	475	610
Families participated in the “second-stage screening”	2537	452	541	463	286	420	375
Parents participated in the “second-stage screening”	3153	696	659	554	319	499	426
Grandparents participated in the “second-stage screening”	121	69	–	46	1	5	–

FINDRISC Finnish Diabetes Risk Score, HICs High-income countries, LMICs Low to middle-income countries

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