Care of children with type 1 diabetes mellitus in school – An interventional study
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Umamaheswari Gurunathan
Abstract
Objectives
Paucity of data from India on care of children with Type 1 diabetes in schools. Aims: To study assess the knowledge, attitude, practices and fear of Type 1 diabetes in school teachers and to assess the impact of an educational model on the fear of teachers and care of children in Type 1 DM at school hours.
Methods
A community based study, involving school teachers and the intervention being educating them about diabetes conducted. Data pertaining to basic demography, attitude of teachers towards diabetic children, Hypoglycemia fear factor survey- parent version with worries domain and preparedness of school was collected. An education program was conducted on diabetes care in children. Immediately and after three months, the proforma details and HFSP-W scores reassessed.
Results
Forty two teachers (mean age: 38.7±5.4; M:F ratio 2:40) participated in the study. Post intervention, a higher willingness to have the diabetic child in class (100 vs. 57.1%; p>0.05), better support in daily care (100 vs. 92%; p>0.05), participation in sports activities (100 vs. 7.1%; p<0.05) observed. HFSP-W scores were 38.8±4.5 (pre-intervention), 22.5±4.3 (immediate post intervention) and 29.5±3.2 (at 3months) (p<0.05). To study the determinants of improvement in HFSP-W a regression analysis was performed: presence of glucometer the most likely determining factor (T=1.999, p=0.05).
Conclusion
There is a significant element of fear in the minds of teachers towards hypoglycemia which improves with a structured education program.
Acknowledgment
We would like to thank Prof Nedunchelian Krishnamoorthy for reviewing this manuscript.
Research funding: None.
Author contribution: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.
Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.
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- Trends in abdominal obesity among Chinese children and adolescents, 1993–2015
- Association of childhood obesity with retinal microvasculature and corneal endothelial cell morphology
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- Treatment and long-term follow-up of patients diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus before age 5
- Diabetes distress in Indian children with type 1 diabetes mellitus and their mothers
- Impact of lockdown for COVID-19 pandemic in Indian children and youth with type 1 diabetes from different socio-economic classes
- First report on the nationwide prevalence of paediatric type 1 diabetes in Serbia and temporal trends of diabetes ketoacidosis at diagnosis—a multicentre study
- Factors affecting thyroid volume in adolescent students attending a rural middle school in East Hangzhou, China
- Impact of maternal thyroid disease on neonatal thyroid status
- Impact of growth hormone treatment on scoliosis development and progression: analysis of 1128 patients with idiopathic short stature
- Short Communication
- Are we ignoring coexisting rhabdomyolysis as an important aggravating factor for acute kidney injury among childhood diabetic ketoacidosis?
- Case Reports
- Microdeletion in the IGF-1 receptor gene of a patient with short stature and obesity: a case report
- SLC25A19 deficiency and bilateral striatal necrosis with polyneuropathy: a new case and review of the literature
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