Cargando…

Health-Related Quality of Life, Family Conflicts and Fear of Injecting: Perception Differences between Preadolescents and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes and Their Mothers

Good management of diabetes requires at the same time self-regulation behaviour and a balanced involvement of family components. This cross-sectional study’s aims were: understanding fear of injections and perceptions of family conflicts in preadolescents and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitu...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Tremolada, Marta, Cusinato, Maria, Bonichini, Sabrina, Fabris, Arianna, Gabrielli, Claudia, Moretti, Carlo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8301019/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34356715
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs11070098
_version_ 1783726574750662656
author Tremolada, Marta
Cusinato, Maria
Bonichini, Sabrina
Fabris, Arianna
Gabrielli, Claudia
Moretti, Carlo
author_facet Tremolada, Marta
Cusinato, Maria
Bonichini, Sabrina
Fabris, Arianna
Gabrielli, Claudia
Moretti, Carlo
author_sort Tremolada, Marta
collection PubMed
description Good management of diabetes requires at the same time self-regulation behaviour and a balanced involvement of family components. This cross-sectional study’s aims were: understanding fear of injections and perceptions of family conflicts in preadolescents and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus and their mothers, comparing their perceptions, and identifying the risk factors impacting patients’ quality of life. Eligibility criteria were: treatment for diabetes mellitus type I, currently aged 10–18 years, attending the hospital for annual hospital follow-ups. Exclusion criteria were: intellectual disabilities, inability to complete questionnaires alone and neuropsychiatric illness with active pharmacotherapy. The study design was cross-sectional. Participants were one hundred and two patients (Mean age = 14.6, SD = 2.4; age range = 10–19 years; Females = 52 and Males = 50) and their mothers (Mean age = 46.9, SD = 6.2, age range = 27–63 years), who filled in self and proxy-report questionnaires (N total= 204). The results showed that 20% of patients and 14.7% of their mothers reported clinical scores for fear of self-injection and blood testing. The mothers reported lower fear of injecting and higher family conflicts compared with the patients. Age, fear of injecting and family conflicts were significantly associated with patients’ quality of life perceptions. Clinical considerations and recommendations are given based on the empirical results.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-8301019
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher MDPI
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-83010192021-07-24 Health-Related Quality of Life, Family Conflicts and Fear of Injecting: Perception Differences between Preadolescents and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes and Their Mothers Tremolada, Marta Cusinato, Maria Bonichini, Sabrina Fabris, Arianna Gabrielli, Claudia Moretti, Carlo Behav Sci (Basel) Article Good management of diabetes requires at the same time self-regulation behaviour and a balanced involvement of family components. This cross-sectional study’s aims were: understanding fear of injections and perceptions of family conflicts in preadolescents and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus and their mothers, comparing their perceptions, and identifying the risk factors impacting patients’ quality of life. Eligibility criteria were: treatment for diabetes mellitus type I, currently aged 10–18 years, attending the hospital for annual hospital follow-ups. Exclusion criteria were: intellectual disabilities, inability to complete questionnaires alone and neuropsychiatric illness with active pharmacotherapy. The study design was cross-sectional. Participants were one hundred and two patients (Mean age = 14.6, SD = 2.4; age range = 10–19 years; Females = 52 and Males = 50) and their mothers (Mean age = 46.9, SD = 6.2, age range = 27–63 years), who filled in self and proxy-report questionnaires (N total= 204). The results showed that 20% of patients and 14.7% of their mothers reported clinical scores for fear of self-injection and blood testing. The mothers reported lower fear of injecting and higher family conflicts compared with the patients. Age, fear of injecting and family conflicts were significantly associated with patients’ quality of life perceptions. Clinical considerations and recommendations are given based on the empirical results. MDPI 2021-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8301019/ /pubmed/34356715 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs11070098 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Article
Tremolada, Marta
Cusinato, Maria
Bonichini, Sabrina
Fabris, Arianna
Gabrielli, Claudia
Moretti, Carlo
Health-Related Quality of Life, Family Conflicts and Fear of Injecting: Perception Differences between Preadolescents and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes and Their Mothers
title Health-Related Quality of Life, Family Conflicts and Fear of Injecting: Perception Differences between Preadolescents and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes and Their Mothers
title_full Health-Related Quality of Life, Family Conflicts and Fear of Injecting: Perception Differences between Preadolescents and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes and Their Mothers
title_fullStr Health-Related Quality of Life, Family Conflicts and Fear of Injecting: Perception Differences between Preadolescents and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes and Their Mothers
title_full_unstemmed Health-Related Quality of Life, Family Conflicts and Fear of Injecting: Perception Differences between Preadolescents and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes and Their Mothers
title_short Health-Related Quality of Life, Family Conflicts and Fear of Injecting: Perception Differences between Preadolescents and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes and Their Mothers
title_sort health-related quality of life, family conflicts and fear of injecting: perception differences between preadolescents and adolescents with type 1 diabetes and their mothers
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8301019/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34356715
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs11070098
work_keys_str_mv AT tremoladamarta healthrelatedqualityoflifefamilyconflictsandfearofinjectingperceptiondifferencesbetweenpreadolescentsandadolescentswithtype1diabetesandtheirmothers
AT cusinatomaria healthrelatedqualityoflifefamilyconflictsandfearofinjectingperceptiondifferencesbetweenpreadolescentsandadolescentswithtype1diabetesandtheirmothers
AT bonichinisabrina healthrelatedqualityoflifefamilyconflictsandfearofinjectingperceptiondifferencesbetweenpreadolescentsandadolescentswithtype1diabetesandtheirmothers
AT fabrisarianna healthrelatedqualityoflifefamilyconflictsandfearofinjectingperceptiondifferencesbetweenpreadolescentsandadolescentswithtype1diabetesandtheirmothers
AT gabrielliclaudia healthrelatedqualityoflifefamilyconflictsandfearofinjectingperceptiondifferencesbetweenpreadolescentsandadolescentswithtype1diabetesandtheirmothers
AT moretticarlo healthrelatedqualityoflifefamilyconflictsandfearofinjectingperceptiondifferencesbetweenpreadolescentsandadolescentswithtype1diabetesandtheirmothers