title: How effective is a short-term educational and support intervention for families of an adolescent with type 1 diabetes?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study adaptation and coping strategies of parents who had adolescents with diabetes and the effect of a short-term educational and support intervention.
  
  
  METHODS
  A quasi-experimental design was used in the study on 23 families of adolescents with diabetes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A significant difference was found between parents' coping patterns before the intervention. Fathers were, however, found to rate their coping patterns significantly more helpful after the intervention than before. The mothers demonstrated, nevertheless, a significantly greater use of all the coping patterns.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Educational and support intervention is helpful for parents of adolescents with diabetes.
authors.affiliation: Landspitali University Hospital Childrens' Hospital Hringbraut, Iceland.
authors.forename: Elisabet
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Konradsdottir
authors.forename: Erla Kolbrun
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Svavarsdottir
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007055:Iceland; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D015397:Program Evaluation