title: Protective Factors in Young Children With Type 1 Diabetes.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To characterize protective factors in young children with type 1 diabetes, and evaluate associations among child protective factors and indicators of diabetes resilience, including better child and parent psychosocial functioning and glycemic control.
  
  
  METHODS
  Parents of 78 young children with type 1 diabetes reported on child protective factors, child quality of life, parent depressive symptoms, and disease-specific parenting stress. A1c values were collected from medical records.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Young children with type 1 diabetes were rated as having similar levels of protective factors as normative samples. Greater child protective factors were associated with indicators of diabetes resilience, including higher child quality of life and lower parent depressive symptoms and parenting stress. Regression analyses demonstrated that child protective factors were associated with 16% of the variance in parent-reported depressive symptoms.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Attention to child protective factors can enhance understanding of adjustment to type 1 diabetes and may have implications for intervention.
authors.affiliation: Children's National Health System, Washington, DC, George Washington University School of Medicine, and mmonagha@childrensnational.org.
authors.forename: Maureen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Monaghan
authors.affiliation: Children's National Health System, Washington, DC, George Washington University School of Medicine, and.
authors.forename: Lauren
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Clary
authors.affiliation: Children's National Health System, Washington, DC.
authors.forename: Alexa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stern
authors.affiliation: Baylor College of Medicine.
authors.forename: Marisa E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Hilliard
authors.affiliation: Children's National Health System, Washington, DC, George Washington University School of Medicine, and.
authors.forename: Randi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Streisand
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001786:Blood Glucose; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D065840:Protective Factors; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose
keywords: glycemic control; parent stress; resilience; type 1 diabetes; young children.