For children with type 1 diabetes (T1D), self-management is complex and requires coordination between a child and his or her family multiple times every day to test blood sugars, determine and administer insulin doses, and adjust as needed. The consequences of suboptimal self-management are a combination of short- and long-term complications, some of which are life-threatening.
In this publication, HIP Investigator Dr. Elizabeth Cox et al. evaluated the prevalence of health psychology use in children with T1D and the association of this use with individual and contextual characteristics.
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