Illness characteristics and psychosocial and demographic correlates of illness severity at onset of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus among school-age children.
To verify empirically the most prevalent physical signs and symptoms of diabetes at onset among school-age children, document the distribution of illness-severity, and examine psychosocial and demographic correlates of initial illness severity, the authors analyzed data on 95 school-age children whose diabetes had been newly diagnosed. The most common presenting symptoms were generally consistent with descriptions in the clinical literature. Only 22% of the children presented with severe illness on admission. Children who lived in single-parent households tended to be more ill on admission than children who lived in two-parent households.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA, USA.
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003710:Demography; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D011593:Psychology, Social; D011594:Psychometrics; D011599:Psychopathology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index