Impaired Family Dynamics Leads to Non Compliance in Type I Diabetes

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Type 1 Diabetes

Treatments: Other: Questionnaires

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00946517

IRB09-00224

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will test the hypothesis that certain parenting styles are associated with greater non-adherence to therapy in children and teens with type 1 diabetes. To test their hypothesis, the investigators will use standardized and validated questionnaires for parents and children to determine: parenting styles (the investigators will measure parental strictness, parental attachment, and parental monitoring), parent ability to cope with stress, parent comfort with the parenting role, parent and child level of depression and parent perception of financial resources. The investigators will also measure parent and child's perception of the child's underlying temperament and parent-child conflict. The investigators will correlate these findings with both parent and child subjective measures of adherence to therapy. The investigators will also obtain objective measures of therapy adherence including: HbA1c, number of hospitalizations for diabetes ketoacidosis and number of missed outpatient appointments. These measures will be correlated with our other findings.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 9 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Type 1 diabetics
• Aged 9 - 18 years

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

20 participants in 2 patient groups

Parents

Description:

Parents or caregivers of type 1 diabetics

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaires

Child

Description:

Type 1 diabetics

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaires