title: Living with sensor-augmented pump therapy in type 1 diabetes: adolescents' and parents' search for harmony.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Adolescents have difficulty successfully sustaining use of continuous glucose monitoring even when it is introduced to experienced pump users. However, little is known about how adolescents and parents perceive and manage sensor-augmented pump therapy (SAPT) in daily life. The purpose of this study was to explore adolescents' and parents' daily experience of living with SAPT.
  
  
  METHODS
  We used an interpretive phenomenological study design. We conducted in-depth, digitally recorded interviews with 7 adolescents and 9 parents recruited through 1 Canadian pediatric diabetes program. Adolescents who participated were 13 to 17 years of age with type 1 diabetes mellitus and had experience (current or past) living with SAPT. Transcripts of the interviews were subjected to a thematic analysis guided by the procedure outlined by Colaizzi.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The overarching theme, seeking harmony, reflected adolescents' and parents' daily struggles with balancing multiple tensions that arose from managing SAPT and harmonizing seemingly opposing choices that were brought to the fore, while also struggling to live with both wellness and chronic illness. Four themes constituted the struggle to find harmony living with diabetes managed with SAPT: struggling with hopes and expectations for SAPT, being ready for SAPT, living the burdens of continuous glucose monitoring and creating partnerships.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Healthcare providers can facilitate adolescent and parental decision-making about the optimal timing for SAPT introduction. Success with SAPT requires exploration of adolescent and parental expectations for SAPT as well as the degree to which parents have previously fostered their adolescent's involvement in and responsibility for diabetes management.
authors.affiliation: Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Judy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rashotte
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Kelley
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tousignant
authors.affiliation: Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Richardson
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Frances
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fothergill-Bourbonnais
authors.affiliation: Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Meranda M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Nakhla
authors.affiliation: Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Olivier
authors.affiliation: Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: lawson@cheo.ca.
authors.forename: Margaret L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Lawson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002170:Canada; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000191:economics*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007328:Insulin / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D007332:Insulin Infusion Systems / Q000523:psychology*; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D013315:Stress, Psychological
chemical_list: D007328:Insulin
keywords: adolescents; diabète de type 1; parents; qualitative research; recherche qualitative; sensor-augmented pump therapy; traitement par pompe reliée à un capteur; type 1 diabetes