Generic and disease-specific quality of life in adolescents with type 1 diabetes: comparison to age-matched healthy peers
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Andrea Lukács
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Péter Sasvári
Abstract
Background: This study aimed to evaluate the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1DM) on the basis of the pediatric quality of life inventory™ (PedsQL™) generic and diabetes-specific modules, and to compare it to that of healthy peers.
Methods: This retrospective case-control study involved 650 participants between ages of 13 and 19 years including 296 adolescents with T1DM from four diabetes centers and 354 healthy peers matched for age and gender from three different cities of the country. Participants completed the validated PedsQL™ for assessing the HRQoL. The analysis included an independent t-test to compare the means of the total and subscales of the PedsQL™ between boys and girls as well as between a healthy group and a group with T1DM. Gender differences in exercise, insulin therapy modalities were evaluated with the Pearson χ2-test.
Results: Adolescents with T1DM have similar HRQoL in all domains when compared to their healthy counterparts. Females report worse HRQoL regardless of the presence of the disease. Insulin pump therapy facilitates better glycemic control and HRQoL. Regular exercise positively correlates with the generic HRQoL in both groups; however, it has no relationship with glycemic control.
Conclusions: Optimal metabolic control and improved HRQoL are the eventual goals of diabetes management. Despite the difficulties, adolescents with diabetes can manage their disease well and live normal lives, similar to their healthy peers. Although diabetes-related problems exist, it seems that regular exercise and staying physically active, as well as promoting insulin pump therapy where it is applicable are related to favorable HRQoL.
Acknowledgments
This research was partially carried out with the contribution of the Workgroup for Health Sciences, Center of Excellence of Applied Materials Science and Nano-Technology at the University of Miskolc.
Research funding: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Original Articles
- Translation and psychometric properties of the Persian version of self-management of type 1 diabetes for adolescents
- Generic and disease-specific quality of life in adolescents with type 1 diabetes: comparison to age-matched healthy peers
- Relationship between HOMA-IR and serum vitamin D in Chinese children and adolescents
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- Biochemical, radiological, and genetic characterization of congenital hypothyroidism in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- High prevalence of DUOX2 mutations in Japanese patients with permanent congenital hypothyroidism or transient hypothyroidism
- Children with severe Osteogenesis imperfecta and short stature present on average with normal IGF-I and IGFBP-3 levels
- Association between physical activity and bone in children with Prader-Willi syndrome
- CNDP1 genotype and renal survival in pediatric nephropathies
- 17-Hydroxyprogesterone responses to human chorionic gonadotropin are not associated with serum anti-Mullerian hormone levels among adolescent girls with polycystic ovary syndrome
- Near-final height in 82 Chinese patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to classic 21-hydroxylase deficiency: a single-center study from China
- Case Reports
- Sertoli cell only syndrome with ambiguous genitalia
- Childhood parathyroid adenoma: a rare but important cause of nephrolithiasis
- A unique case of growth hormone and human chorionic gonadotropin treatment in a 45,X male with Y: autosome translocation and literature review
- Propionic acidemia: a Turkish case report of a successful pregnancy, labor and lactation
- Unusual phenotype of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) with a novel mutation of the CYP21A2 gene
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