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Attitudes of Adolescents Toward Their Diabetes

Attitudes of Adolescents Toward Their Diabetes Abstract Teen-agers with juvenile diabetes see themselves in the same light as other teenagers in many important areas of personal freedom and responsibility in their daily lives. Compared with nondiabetic teenagers, who feel that they took responsibility too early, those with diabetes are satisfied with the ages at which they assumed such responsibility, and do not feel that they have been forced into too-early assumption of responsibility for their own diabetic management. They are ready, in terms of average understanding at least, to begin to assume total responsibility for their own diabetic management at around age 12, with a view to undertaking it completely around age 15. Their view of the degree of control of their own diabetes is realistic. References 1. Etzwiler DD: What the juvenile diabetic knows about his disease . Pediatrics 29:135-141, 1962. 2. Crain AJ: Effects of a diabetic child on marital integration and related measures of family functioning . J Health Human Behav 7:122-127, 1966.Crossref 3. Lowrey GH: Management of the young diabetic patient: II . J Mich Med 61:1230-1235, 1962. 4. Swift CR, Seidman F, Stein H: Adjustment problems in juvenile diabetes . Psychosom Med 29:555-571, 1967.Crossref 5. Isenberg PL, Barnett DM: Psychological problems in diabetes mellitus . Med Clin Amer 49:11251136, 1965. 6. Larsson Y, Sterky G, Christiansen G: Long-term prognosis in juvenile diabetes mellitus . Acta Paediat 51( (suppl 130) ): 1-76, 1962.Crossref 7. Lowrey GH: Management of diabetes mellitus in adolescent patients . Texas Med 60:835-839, 1964. 8. Schiff LJ: Emotional problems of diabetic children and their parents . Psychosomatics 5:362-364, 1964.Crossref 9. Holcomb B, Burns EM, Partridge JW, et al: A Diabetic Notebook . Portland, Ore, 1967, p 131. 10. Douvan E, Gold M: Modal patterns in American adolescence , in Hoffman LW, Hoffman ML (eds): Review of Child Development Research . New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 1966, vol 2, pp 469-528. 11. Swift CR, Seidman FL: Adjustment problems of juvenile diabetes . J Amer Acad Child Psychiat 3:500515, 1964.Crossref http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Diseases of Children American Medical Association

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10.1001/archpedi.1972.02110140076009
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Abstract Teen-agers with juvenile diabetes see themselves in the same light as other teenagers in many important areas of personal freedom and responsibility in their daily lives. Compared with nondiabetic teenagers, who feel that they took responsibility too early, those with diabetes are satisfied with the ages at which they assumed such responsibility, and do not feel that they have been forced into too-early assumption of responsibility for their own diabetic management. They are ready, in terms of average understanding at least, to begin to assume total responsibility for their own diabetic management at around age 12, with a view to undertaking it completely around age 15. Their view of the degree of control of their own diabetes is realistic. References 1. Etzwiler DD: What the juvenile diabetic knows about his disease . Pediatrics 29:135-141, 1962. 2. Crain AJ: Effects of a diabetic child on marital integration and related measures of family functioning . J Health Human Behav 7:122-127, 1966.Crossref 3. Lowrey GH: Management of the young diabetic patient: II . J Mich Med 61:1230-1235, 1962. 4. Swift CR, Seidman F, Stein H: Adjustment problems in juvenile diabetes . Psychosom Med 29:555-571, 1967.Crossref 5. Isenberg PL, Barnett DM: Psychological problems in diabetes mellitus . Med Clin Amer 49:11251136, 1965. 6. Larsson Y, Sterky G, Christiansen G: Long-term prognosis in juvenile diabetes mellitus . Acta Paediat 51( (suppl 130) ): 1-76, 1962.Crossref 7. Lowrey GH: Management of diabetes mellitus in adolescent patients . Texas Med 60:835-839, 1964. 8. Schiff LJ: Emotional problems of diabetic children and their parents . Psychosomatics 5:362-364, 1964.Crossref 9. Holcomb B, Burns EM, Partridge JW, et al: A Diabetic Notebook . Portland, Ore, 1967, p 131. 10. Douvan E, Gold M: Modal patterns in American adolescence , in Hoffman LW, Hoffman ML (eds): Review of Child Development Research . New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 1966, vol 2, pp 469-528. 11. Swift CR, Seidman FL: Adjustment problems of juvenile diabetes . J Amer Acad Child Psychiat 3:500515, 1964.Crossref

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American Journal of Diseases of Children – American Medical Association

Published: Aug 1, 1972

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