Declining metabolic control and decreasing parental support among families with adolescents with diabetes: the risk of restrictiveness.

ABSTRACT:

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Background For children with diabetes, metabolic control typically declines across the adolescent years.

Objective

The longitudinal interplay between supportive relationships with parents and metabolic control were investigated in families that differ in parents' restrictiveness.

Method

The time-dependent links between perceived parental social support and metabolic control were investigated in a sample of 109 German adolescents with diabetes. 3 waves of data were collected at annual intervals; metabolic control (indexed by HbA1c) was assayed by physicians annually.

Results

Family restrictiveness moderated longitudinal associations between metabolic control and perceived social support. For adolescents reporting high family restrictiveness, poorer in

SUBMITTER: Seiffge-Krenke I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3666117 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature