The Empowerment of Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Is Associated with Their Executive Functions
Joint Authors
Szadkowska, Agnieszka
Jarosz-Chobot, Przemyslawa
Szlachcikowska, Ilona
Kiernozek, Żaneta
Kaczmarek, Anna
Szylaj, Oliwia
Głowińska-Olszewska, Barbara
Szczepaniak, Izabela
Bossowski, Artur
Łuczyński, Włodzimierz
Source
Issue
Vol. 2019, Issue 2019 (31 Dec. 2019), pp.1-8, 8 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2019-04-30
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
8
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Background.
Adolescence is a difficult period for young people with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), both in psychological and clinical terms.
Empowerment therapy may support these patients, provided they are ready to change and have adequate executive functions to facilitate this change.
Therefore, we hypothesise that the readiness of adolescents with T1DM to change is related to clinical features and/or their executive functions.
Methods.
Using the Diabetes Empowerment Scale and the Behavioural Rating Inventory of Executive Function, we evaluated patients with T1DM duration of more than one year from three Polish diabetes centres of the PolPeDiab study group (N = 146).
We related the data to features associated with disease and treatment and compared the results to those of adolescents without diabetes (N = 110).
Results.
We observed that adolescents with T1DM had a higher rate of abnormal results in executive function tests than their peers without diabetes (p > 0.05).
Diabetes empowerment in this group of patients decreased with disease duration (r = -0.25, p = 0.006) and increased with deteriorating metabolic control (HbA1c; r = 0.25, p = 0.006).
The greater the deficiencies in executive functions among adolescents with T1DM, the greater their readiness to change.
The relationship between executive functions and diabetes empowerment is partially gender-differentiated.
Conclusions.
To conclude, we propose individualized diabetes education in this group of patients based on the assessment of readiness to change and executive functions.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Łuczyński, Włodzimierz& Szczepaniak, Izabela& Szlachcikowska, Ilona& Kiernozek, Żaneta& Kaczmarek, Anna& Szylaj, Oliwia…[et al.]. 2019. The Empowerment of Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Is Associated with Their Executive Functions. BioMed Research International،Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1125868
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Łuczyński, Włodzimierz…[et al.]. The Empowerment of Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Is Associated with Their Executive Functions. BioMed Research International No. 2019 (2019), pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1125868
American Medical Association (AMA)
Łuczyński, Włodzimierz& Szczepaniak, Izabela& Szlachcikowska, Ilona& Kiernozek, Żaneta& Kaczmarek, Anna& Szylaj, Oliwia…[et al.]. The Empowerment of Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Is Associated with Their Executive Functions. BioMed Research International. 2019. Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1125868
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1125868