A BSTRACT Background: Prediabetes is a term that defines those people whose blood glucose levels are detected as being below the cut-off point to diagnose type 2 diabetes mellitus, but above what is currently established as “normal.” In Mexico, an Mexican Institute of Social Security study reported a prevalence of 7.86% while according to the criteria of the FINDRISC scale, 66.7% of individuals presented a moderate to very high risk of developing diabetes. Determine the knowledge level of Family Physicians and Family Medicine Resident Physicians Regarding Prediabetes. Methods: Observational, descriptive, cross-sectional, and prospective study. Family Medicine Physicians and Resident Physicians who willingly accepted answering an evaluation on prediabetes through a previously validated instrument by expert personnel, were included. Descriptive statistics were calculated, and quantitative variables are expressed in terms of central tendency and dispersion measurements. Qualitative variables are expressed in percentages. Statistical analysis used IBM© SPSS ® v. 20 for Microsoft © Windows ® was used. Results: 159 research subjects with an average age of 36.7 ± 7.9 were included. The 65% ( n = 56) are women. 65% of the respondents were Family Medicine Physicians ( n = 93) and 35% were Resident Physicians ( n = 66). The obtained average score was 71.94 ± 11.9. Categorizing the owned knowledge, 27% ( n = 43) had a good score and 11.95% ( n = 19) had a very good score. In the bivariate analysis to search for associations between aging and being a permanent contract or resident physician versus the obtained scoring, no statistically significant differences ( P = 0.57) were found. Conclusions: The knowledge level of family medicine specialists and residents regarding prediabetes is insufficient, underscoring the need for training courses with a preventive focus on prediabetes.
González-Perez et al. (Sun,) studied this question.