Background: Juvenile diabetes remains one of the most complex chronic diseases in childhood. Adolescents and those of lower socio-economic status are at higher risk for poorer metabolic control and difficulties with psychosocial well-being. Juvenile diabetes can be associated with adverse effects on cognition during childhood and adolescence. Caring for children with Juvenile diabetes is typically the role of the mother. Mother must pay special attention to the promotion of good eating habits, stimulate physical activity, monitor blood sugar levels, make frequent visits to physicians and provide emotional support to the child. Aim of the study: This study aimed to assess mothers' knowledge and practices toward their children suffering from juvenile diabetes. Methods: This study was a descriptive, performed on 77 mothers whose children suffering from juvenile diabetes and attends to the out-patient pediatric diabetic clinic at the pediatric hospital affiliated to Ain Shams University Hospitals. Tools of data collection: A predesigned questionnaire to assess characteristics of the studied children and mothers, mothers' knowledge about juvenile diabetes and checklists of mothers' reported practices regarding care of their children suffering from juvenile diabetes. Results: Nearly two thirds of the studied mothers had unsatisfactory knowledge about juvenile diabetes, more than half of the studied mothers had incorrect reported practices regarding care for their children suffering from juvenile diabetes. In addition, there was a positive correlation between total knowledge of the studied mothers and their total reported practice. Conclusions: Mothers under study had unsatisfactory knowledge and incorrect reported practices regarding care of their children suffering from juvenile diabetes. In addition, there was a positive correlation between total knowledge of the studied mothers and their total reported practices. Recommendations: Establishing educational programs to improve knowledge and practices of mothers regarding care of their children suffering from juvenile diabetes. Further researches are needed to measure knowledge about juvenile diabetes in Egypt and its effect on the child care. Encourage the use of updated methods for education about juvenile diabetes as mobile messages, available means of information technology, one to one diabetes education and care for children and their mothers.
Background: Juvenile diabetes is the most common endocrine disease during infancy and adolescence causing serious coping problems so adolescents must adapt to and effectively manage their illness. Aim: this study aimed to assess the self-efficacy among adolescents with juvenile diabetes. The disease is characterized by extremely limited or nonexistent insulin secretion. Clinically apparent diabetes with hyperglycemia or ketoacidosis manifests only when at least 90% of the insulin-secreting cells have been eliminated and insulin deprivation becomes severe. Pediatric nurses play an important role in the early detection of diabetes and are able to intervene and manage the condition early on. The majority of nurses have a specialist qualification in providing diabetes special education and support for adolescents in treatment decisions regarding their illness Design: A descriptive research design was utilized in the current study. Setting: This study was conducted at outpatient pediatric endocrinology clinic at Beni Suef university Hospital. Subjects: A purposive sample of 84 adolescents with juvenile diabetes attending the previously mentioned study setting. Tools of data collection: Three tools were used to collect data: tool (1) interviewing questionnaire: (2) checklist of reported practices, tool (3) self-efficacy scale to assess self-efficacy among adolescents with juvenile diabetes. Results: more than half of the studied adolescents had unsatisfactory total knowledge level about juvenile diabetes, more than two thirds of them had incomplete reported practices and nearly two thirds of them had a low selfefficacy score. Conclusion: Adolescents with juvenile diabetes had unsatisfactory total knowledge score and incomplete total reported practices. In addition to, most of them had a low self-efficacy score. Recommendation: Establishing educational programs to improve self-efficacy of the adolescents with juvenile diabetes.
Background: Juvenile diabetes is the most common endocrine disease during infancy and adolescence causing serious coping problems so adolescents must adapt to and effectively manage their illness. Aim of the study: this study aimed to evaluate the effect of an educational program on the self-efficacy among adolescents with juvenile diabetes. Research design: A quasi-experimental design was utilized in the current study. Setting: This study was conducted at outpatient pediatric endocrinology clinic at Beni Suef university Hospital. Subjects: A purposive sample of 84 adolescents with juvenile diabetes. Tools of data collection: Three tools were used: tool (1) interviewing questionnaire, tool (2) checklist of reported practices, tool (3) self-efficacy scale. Results: this study noted there was a high statistically significant positive correlation between the studied adolescents' total knowledge and their self- efficacy post program implementation. As well as, there was a statistically significant correlation between the studied adolescents' total practice and their self- efficacy post program implementation. Conclusion: The current study concluded that, implementation of an educational program has a positive effect on improving self-efficacy among adolescents with juvenile diabetes. Recommendation: Continuous educational programs to improve knowledge and self-efficacy among adolescents with juvenile diabetes.
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