ADOLESCENTS COPING WITH TYPE 1DIABETES

Adolescents coping with Type 1 Diabetes



Adolescents coping with Type 1 Diabetes

Adolescents with type 1 diabetes face a complex set of developmental changes, as well as the changing needs of the disease. Problems of adaptation can affect both psychological well-being and the course of the disease by helping the poor governance and poor metabolic control. Taking into account management skills are critical for emotional and social development among youth in general, adolescents with diabetes are faced with additional requirements.

In the present study, bridging refers to a widely used framework for the classification of coping responses in accordance with their function. Overcoming styles are typical, habitual preferences for solutions to problems and can be viewed as a strategy, which people usually use to handle a wide range of stress. Problem-based decision relates to efforts in the direction of the sound problem, and it aims at changing the situation causing the distress. Emotion-oriented solution involves efforts to reduce the emotional distress caused by stressful events and to manage or regulate emotions that may accompany or as a result of stress. (Band 1990 159)

In the previous study among healthy young men and young people with physical, behavioral and psychological problems, reported that adolescents who are more easily used in a more problematic to avoid cognitive and emotional level. In addition, various chronic diseases, it was suggested that the problem of overcoming the focus is usually associated with more tuning. Adolescents with diabetes, as well as prevent copying and venting emotions were found to predict poor disease specific self-care behavior, but are not related to metabolic control. On the other hand, how to cope with stress were also identified as important factors for metabolic control. The relationship between higher levels to avoid copying and poorer metabolic control have been reported. (Band 1990 41)

The importance of perspective in understanding the variability in the decision highlights the efforts of young people). It was suggested that subjects who used a more mature defense and exhibited a greater ability to adapt were more likely to accede to their regime. Strategies for survival appears to depend on age, adolescents with more avoidance coping than younger children with diabetes.

In this paper, we assumed that the problem of overcoming oriented style is positively associated, and emotion-oriented coping styles negatively associated with better metabolic control and higher levels of perceived diabetes-related quality of life. (Ingersoll, 1991, 114)

Type 1 diabetes is a complex chronic disease that affects the daily lives of patients, and has particular implications for adolescents and their families. Given that diabetes management should be integrated into the lifestyle of the family, it is likely to affect each family member. Parents are often involved in aspects of the lives of their teenagers, that otherwise they will be ignored. Improved accountability and the requirements of diabetes treatment can lead to parent-child conflict. In addition, parental involvement may be in conflict with the developing sense of adolescent autonomy(Jacobson 1994, ...