Adolescents with Type 1 diabetes mellitus experience psychosensorial symptoms during hypoglycaemia. Issue 10 (15th July 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Law, J. R.; Yeşiltepe‐Mutlu, G.; Helms, S.; Meyer, E.; Özsu, E.; Çizmecioğlu, F.; Lin, F.C.; Hatun, Ş.; Calikoglu, A. S.
• Is Part Of: Diabetic medicine. Volume 31:Issue 10(2014:Oct.)
• Page Start: 1245
• Page End: 1251
• Publication Date: 2014-07-15
• Subjects: Diabetes -- Periodicals; 616.462
• DOI: 10.1111/dme.12533
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0742-3071

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" id="dme12533-abs-0001"> <title>Abstract</title> <sec id="dme12533-sec-0001" sec-type="section"> <title>Aim</title> <p>To describe mood and psychosensorial symptoms of hypoglycaemia in adolescents with Type 1 diabetes mellitus in two countries with different cultures, Turkey and the USA.</p> </sec> <sec id="dme12533-sec-0002" sec-type="section"> <title>Methods</title> <p>We developed a 68‐item questionnaire assessing physical, behavioural, mood and psychosensorial symptom frequency and ratings ['good', 'bad', or 'both' (sometimes good, sometimes bad)]. Adolescents with Type 1 diabetes were recruited from paediatric diabetes clinics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the USA and Kocaeli University in Turkey. The percentages of participants at each clinic who endorsed individual symptoms, symptom categories and symptom ratings were calculated and compared.</p> </sec> <sec id="dme12533-sec-0003" sec-type="section"> <title>Results</title> <p>Cronbach's α values were > 0.7 for each real symptom category. No symptom items were excluded from the questionnaire analysis based on item‐total correlation results which were all > 0.2. Data were collected from 132 participants (69 from University of North Carolina, 63 from Kocaeli University, 54% male). The mean (<sc>sd</sc>) age of the participants was 14.9 (1.9) years, HbA<sub>1c</sub> level was 8.7 (1.8) % and duration of Type 1 diabetes was 5.8 (3.7) years. On average, each physical symptom was experienced by 65.2% of participants, each behavioural symptom by 46.5%, each mood symptom by 42.8%, and each psychosensorial symptom by 48.9%. On average, each physical, behavioral, mood and psychosensorial symptom was rated as 'good' or 'both' by 23.0, 29.1, 36.9 and 37.2% of participants, respectively. There were no symptom differences between the groups in each country.</p> </sec> <sec id="dme12533-sec-0004" sec-type="section"> <title>Conclusions</title> <p>In addition to the classic physical symptoms experienced during hypoglycaemia, adolescents with Type 1 diabetes report psychosensorial, mood and behavioral symptoms, and some describe them as positive experiences. Symptom experiences were similar in these two countries with different cultures.</p> </sec> </abstract>