Maternal depressive symptoms and disease care status in youth with type 1 diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The current study assessed relations among maternal depressive symptoms, poorer youth diabetes adherence, and glycemic control. Specifically, hypothesized mediating links of lowered expectations of parental involvement, less parental monitoring, and more conflict were examined.

Method

Participants included 225 mothers and their young adolescents, aged 11-14 years (M = 12.73 years, SD = 1.2) diagnosed with T1D. Maternal depressive symptoms and outcome expectancies for maternal involvement were evaluated with self-report questionnaires. Multisource, parent/youth, and multimethod assessment of adherence, parental monitoring, and conflict were evaluated during a baseline assessment from a larger randomized clinical trial.

Results

The first hypothesized structura

SUBMITTER: Mackey ER 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4166570 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature