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ey0015.10-17 | Psychology and quality of life | ESPEYB15

10.17 Strengths, risk factors, and resilient outcomes in adolescents with T1DM: results from diabetes MILES Youth-Australia

ME Hilliard , V Hagger , C Hendrieckx , BJ Anderson , S Trawley , MM Jack , F Pouwer , T Skinner , J Speight

To read the full abstract: Diabetes Care. 2017;40:849-855Coping 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-documente...

ey0017.10-10 | (1) | ESPEYB17

10.10. ‘I’m essentially his pancreas’: Parent perceptions of diabetes burden and opportunities to reduce burden in the care of children <8 years old with type 1 diabetes

PV Commissariat , KR Harrington , AL Whitehouse , KM Miller , ME Hilliard , M Van Name , DJ DeSalvo , WV Tamborlane , BJ Anderson , LA DiMeglio , LM Laffel

To read the full abstract: Pediatr Diabetes. 2020 Mar;21(2):377–383. doi: 10.1111/pedi.12956. PMID: 31808586Across all age groups, management of type 1 diabetes (T1DM) places substantial workload, responsibility and emotional burden, such as worries and stress, on families. This study explored parent perceptions of the burdens of caring for very young children with T1DM. Semi-structured qu...

ey0015.10-16 | Psychology and quality of life | ESPEYB15

10.16 Factors associated with diabetes-specific health-related quality of life in youth with T1DM: the global TEENs study

BJ Anderson , LM Laffel , C Domenger , T Danne , M Phillip , C Mazza , R Hanas , S Waldron , RW Beck , F Calvi-Gries , C Mathieu

To read the full abstract: Diabetes Care. 2017;40:1002-1009Quality of life (QOL) measures have increasingly been considered as end-points of medical interventions. Both general QOL and health- and disease-specific quality of life can be assessed using well defined and validated questionnaires. The TEENs study is an international, cross-sectional study of youth with T1DM. 5,887 participants were follo...