Diabetes distress in adolescents with type 1 diabetes and its relation with the clinical condition

Author: Evelina Juodienė Title: Diabetes distress in adolescents with type 1 diabetes and its relation with the clinical condition. Aim: To evaluate the diabetes distress and its relation with the clinical condition in adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Objectives: To assess the diabetes distress differences in males and females with type 1 diabetes. To assess the diabetes distress relation with age in males and females with type 1 diabetes. To assess the diabetes distress relation with diabetes control in males and females with type 1 diabetes. To assess the diabetes distress relation with the duration of the disease in males and females with type 1 diabetes. Methodology: The data of the subjects were taken from the database of the biomedical research years of age Genetic Diabetes in Lithuania. The Master’s thesis included 246 adolescents (14-17 years of age): 114 females and 132 males with type 1 diabetes. Sociodemographic data, duration of the diabetes, diabetes control indicators and Problem Areas in Diabetes (PAID) scale were analyzed. Data analysis was performed using Microsoft Office Excel 2015 and the statistical package of SPSS 20.0. Data are statistically significant when p<0,05. Results: A high diabetic distress was felt by 17.07 of participants, an average - 57.72% and the low - 25.20% of subjects. The analysis of the diabetes distress relation with gender it was determined that males (37.12%) more than girls (11.40%) have a low level distress caused by diabetes. Whereas, females (68.42%) more than males (48.48%) are likely to have average distress evoked by diabetes. The high diabetes induced distress is more likely to occur to females (20.18%) than to males (14.39%). The diabetes related distress level of adolescents is statistically significant when p