Self-care of school-age children with diabetes: an integrative review

Abstract

A balance between diabetes care requirements and a child's maturity should be found. Nurses must adopt an empowering manner of education and recognize and assess a child's readiness to learn diabetes care and bear responsibility for it. Nurses must also help parents and other adults to gradually shift the responsibility to the children.

Okul Öncesi Dönem Çocukları (36–72 ay) İçin Özbakım Becerileri Ölçeği-Öğretmen Formu’nun Geçerlik ve Güvenirlik Çalışması

“…Farklı araştırmalarda otizm ve down sendromlu çocukların ince motor becerileri ve özbakım becerileri arasında doğrudan bir ilişki bulunmuştur (Jasmin, 2009;Frank ve Esbensen, 2015). Kelo, Martikainen ve Eriksson (2011), tip bir diyabeti olan çocukların özbakım becerilerinin genel sağlık durumları üzerinde etkili olduğunu belirtmişlerdir. Kruijsen-Terpstra ve arkadaşları tarafından yapılan araştırmada (2015), serebral palsili çocukların özbakım becerilerini geliştirmek için geliştirilen farklı terapi yöntemlerinin olumlu etkilerinden bahsedilmiştir.…”

The Effect of Partnership Care Plan on Metabolic Control of Iraqi Diabetic Adolescents

“…The goal of patient education is to empower children and their parents to acquire knowledge and skills, and to master and control the treatment process [8]. School-age children can learn diabetes self-management skills but they need their parents to share the responsibility of diabetes management [9]. Teenagers with type 1 diabetes and their families are required to manage several insulin injections, monitor blood glucoses control, endure diet limitations and do regular physical activities.…”

“…Nurses play an important role in the control and prevention of diabetes. Nurses need to adopt an empowering manner of education, and recognize and assess a child's readiness to learn about diabetes care and take responsibility for it [13]. Nursing care plans assist to solve parts of the patients' problems.…”

Impact of numeracy on parental self-efficacy and treatment outcome of children on complex diets.

“…Type 1 diabetes is one of the most common chronic childhood diseases, with a prevalence of one in 400 to 600 in the United States (Kelo, Martikainen, & Eriksson, 2011). Similar to type 2 diabetes, the incidence of T1D has been increasing in North America since the mid-1950's, and children are being diagnosed at a younger age.…”

“…Parents of children age 13 and up were excluded as at this age children are expected to take over a substantial degree of self-care of their disorder, including blood monitoring and diet management (Kelo et al, 2011;Silverstein et al, 2005;Trahms, 2008).…”