Longitudinal Correlates of Health Risk Behaviors in Children and Adolescents with Type 2 Diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To characterize, during a 2-year period, the proportion of youth with type 2 diabetes (T2D) enrolled in the Treatment Options for Type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents and Youth study that reported ever at least trying smoking cigarettes and/or drinking alcohol.

Study design

Longitudinal data were examined for participants with T2D ages 10-18 years at baseline. Youth psychosocial, parent/family, environmental, and biological correlates of trying health risk behaviors were tested via cross-sectional multivariate models at each time point. Longitudinal models were explored for selected factors.

Results

Data were obtained from the Treatment Options for Type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents and Youth study's ethnically diverse participants at baseline (N=644), 6-month (N=616

SUBMITTER: Ievers-Landis CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4414713 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature