ESPEYB15 10 Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Psychology and quality of life (3 abstracts)
10.17 Strengths, risk factors, and resilient outcomes in adolescents with T1DM: results from diabetes MILES Youth-Australia
Hilliard ME , Hagger V , Hendrieckx C , Anderson BJ , Trawley S , Jack MM , Pouwer F , Skinner T & Speight J
Section of Psychology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
To read the full abstract: Diabetes Care. 2017;40:849-855
Coping strategies for people with chronic diseases include working on risk factors as well as using and employing resilience factors in daily coping strategies. Both strengthes and difficulties may be experienced by people with T1DM. In this study, strengths were strongly related to key resilient outcomes, even in the presence of well-documented psychological and family risk factors adolescents, diabetes strengths were strongly related to key resilient outcomes, even in the presence of well-documented psychological and family risk factors in a large sample of adolescents with T1DM.
It remains unclear whether or not strengths reduce or buffer risks and difficulties. Given the associations with self-management, HbA1c, and general quality of life, monitoring and enhancing psychological strengths to cope with diabetes may support resilience promotion during a vulnerable developmental period, i.e. adolescence. Lack of resilience factors and use of may lead to impaired quality of life and bad metabolic control in vulnerable periods of life.
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