The Ups and Downs of Parenting Young Children With Type 1 Diabetes: A Crowdsourcing Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Parenting young children with type 1 diabetes (YC-T1D) entails pervasive challenges; parental coping may influence child and parent outcomes. This study used a qualitative descriptive design to describe these challenges comprehensively to inform the user-centered design of an Internet coping resource for parents.

Methods

A "Parent Crowd" of 153 parents of children with T1D onset at ≤ 5 years old submitted textual responses online to open-ended questions about parenting YC-T1D. Systematic coding organized responses into domains, themes, and examples. A supplemental focus group of racial/ethnic minority parents enhanced the sample's diversity and validated findings from the Parent Crowd.

Results

Similar domains and themes emerged from responses of crowdsourci

SUBMITTER: Pierce JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5896609 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature