Perceived barriers” is a theoretical construct that is described in a number of health promotion models and social-cognitive theories including the health belief model .(Becker et al , 1977) and the health promotion model .There is substantial evidence from research conducted over a number of decades that “Perceived barriers” are a significant predictor of health promothing behavior(Pender, 2006) and that women face a range of environmental , social and barriers that prevent them from engaging in healthy lifestyle activities .(Gatewood et al , 2008) Health promotion has been described by WHO as “the process of enabling people to increase control over the determinants of health and thereby improve their health . WHO’s Global strategy on diet , physical activity and health (WHO ,2005) targets chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes , and recommends health promotion activities and strategies should focus not on social and environmental risk factors but also individual behavior change to address risk factor . in this context , lifestyle risk factor modification in type 2 diabetes education can be described as health promotion . The new PRF-T2DM is a valid and reliable measure of perception of risk for type 2 diabetes among a heterogeneous sample of adults from the general population of the united states . The PRF-T2DM can guide the tailoring of risk-based intervention to foster risk-reducing behaviours and health-promoting activities . Further development and psychometric evaluation of the PRF-T2DM is warranted , especially among homogenous sample of population groups at increased risk for the development of type 2 diabetes , such as Hispanic/Latinos and afican Americans.