Psychosocial Needs for Newly Diagnosed Youth with Type 1 Diabetes and Their Families.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose of review

To synthesize findings from studies published within the last 5 to 10 years and recruiting families of children with new-onset type 1 diabetes (T1D).

Recent findings

Children can establish glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) trajectories in the new-onset period that may persist for up to a decade. Demographic factors, family conflict, and diabetic ketoacidosis at the time of diagnosis may be risk factors for sub-optimal child HbA1c, while new immune modulating therapies and a treatment approach that combines advanced technologies and remote patient monitoring may improve child HbA1c. Nonetheless, recent trials in the new-onset period have largely overlooked how treatments may impact families' psychosocial functioning and longitudinal observational studies have been

SUBMITTER: Patton SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9211050 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature