Highlights
- •T1D management demands lifestyle changes for adolescents with T1D and their parents.
- •The substantive theory that emerged from the data suggests how participants cope.
- •Interdependence in care during adolescence may be a critical in T1D management.
- •Interdependence should include support from outside the family.
Abstract
Background
Management of T1D is complex and requires continuous care and monitoring that place
many demands on adolescents with T1D and their parents. The purpose of this study
was to explore the nature of interdependence with T1D management with adolescents
and their parents.
Methods
Using a constructivist grounded theory methodology, 32 open-ended interviews were
conducted, transcribed, and analyzed from 11 adolescents aged 10–18 years with T1D
and eight parents.
Findings
The data were coded using three coding phases: initial, focused, and theroetical and
this process continued until theroetical saturation was reached. The substantive theory
that emerged from the data describing parents’ and adolescents' main concern of Maintaining Optimal Glycemic Control was Managing the Unmanageable through Interdependence. Four related subprocesses were found: Completing T1D Tasks, Attaining Support, Balancing Independence, and Reconciling Reality. These subprocesses occurred within the context of the ever-changing, Nature of the Illness.
Discussion
There is a dynamic relationship associated with interdependence between adolescents
with T1D and their parents that varied situationally and by age. Participants also
indicated interdependence occurs or they would like it to occur, with others beyond
themselves and the health-care team to others willing to be involved.
Application to practice
Interdependence is a dynamic process and requires ongoing evaluation by health-care
professionals of its function in the daily management of T1D by parents and adolescents.
Additional research into of the roles of health professionals and others in promoting
interdependence is needed.
Keywords
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: August 01, 2022
Accepted:
July 16,
2022
Received in revised form:
June 14,
2022
Received:
March 23,
2022
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