Parental anxiety and depression associated with caring for a child newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes: Opportunities for education and counseling

Being mothers and fathers of a child with type 1 diabetes aged 1 to 7 years: a phenomenological study of parents’ experiences

“…This state of alertness, which was described by the parents in our study, was present up to 6 years after the diagnosis was a fact (from 1 to 6 years, see Table I). In another study (Streisand et al, 2008), parents reported feelings of isolation, and fear and doubt about being able to regulate the child’s blood-glucose level optimally pervaded these parents’ experiences. This may have some parallels to findings in our study about parents finding themselves in a constant state of alertness, fearing the grave consequences of not being able to regulate the child’s blood-glucose level properly, which also implied isolation.…”

“…Several studies have emphasised parental psychological distress when and immediately after a child is diagnosed with T1D (Landolt, Vollrath, Laimbacher, Gnehm, & Sennhauser, 2005; Lowes & Lyne, 2000; Stallwood, 2005; Streisand et al, 2008). Symptoms such as shock and sorrow (Lowes & Lyne, 2000), post-traumatic stress disorder (Landolt et al, 2005) and increased anxiety and depression levels (Streisand et al, 2008) are common among parents of children newly diagnosed with diabetes. To learn to give your own child injections and finger pricks could be both a practical and an emotional challenge for parents.…”

Factors Influencing Female Caregivers' Appraisals of Their Preschoolers' Behaviors

“…The participant"s responses were based on how frequently they had experienced the stated problem in the last two weeks. The CES-D has been used in numerous research studies on parents with Cronbach"s alpha coefficients of .92 in a study of low-income single mothers (Peden, Rayens, Hall, & Grant, 2005) and .91 in parents of newly diagnosed children with type 1 diabetes (Streisand et al, 2008). Test-retest reliability is .51-.67 from two to eight weeks (Radloff & Locke, 2000).…”

Socioeconomic Status and the Domestic Allocation of Type 1 Diabetes Care

“…Orchestrating the multifaceted components of care coordination in diabetes happens within the domestic sphere of family life and, subsequently, takes a toll therein. Parents of children and adolescents with T1D experience heightened levels of anxiety, stress, and depression, and lower levels of family cohesion [5][6][7][8]. Parental burnout, which presents serious health risk, is associated with the degree to which everyday life is affected by T1D [9].…”

“…There are a number of intersecting socio-contextual factors, such as sexuality, gender identity, racial and ethnic status, and socioeconomic status that may shape experiences of caregiving, but studies documenting parental strain in T1D care direct most attention at women, namely mothers. Diabetes care given by mothers influences a myriad of outcome variables like depression [10], sleep patterns [11], and anxiety [8,12]. In a similar vein, many studies examine the impact of outcomes like maternal depression on glycemic control for their children [13,14].…”