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Journal of Health Psychology, Vol. 4, No. 2, 223-236 (1999)

The Young Person's Perspective on Living and Coping with Diabetes

Helen Schur

Psychological Health Care, Barnsley, UK

D S Gamsu

Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK

Valerie M Barley

Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK

Adolescence and young adulthood is a time of significant psychological and psychosocial development, and for young people with Type 1 diabetes mellitus it is a time when self-care and metabolic control of diabetes may become compromised. In order to enhance services' efforts to meet the complex needs of young people with diabetes, a qualitative interview study with eight young people (aged 16-22 years) was carried out. Young people identified an inherent vulnerability associated with having diabetes and feared that diabetes would take control and overwhelm them. Through learning to live with diabetes, and learning to manage a relationship with diabetes, the young people had developed sophisticated, interrelated self-protective strategies to manage intrapersonal and interpersonal threats from diabetes.

Key Words: adolescence • coping • diabetes • qualitative • threats


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