Volume 1 number 1 Summer 2003
Special issue for the abstracts of the 7th Pan Arab Conference on Diabetes
PACD7 , 25 – 28 March 2003 Cairo

Abstract Number : 60
Parental Coping Pattern Towards Their Diabetic Children

Dr. lamiaa Ahmed Elsayed

Insulin- dependent diabetes mellitus {IDDM} is the most common chronic endocrine condition in children. Children with diabetes are required a highly complex regimen, daily diabetic therapy that consists of insulin injection, strict diet and program of physical exercise. Each year in U.S. 13,000 newly children diagnosed. IDDM remains a chronic condition, potentially threatening the child life and demanding stressful experience not only for the children themselves, but also for the whole family. Parents of children with IDDM must deal with the risk of severe insulin reactions, current and future complication, repeated hospitalization and responding to his/her developmental needs. Therefore, satisfy of such needs impose stress on the parents or family as a whole. . Coping is usually intimately related to the appraisal of stress .It involves the use of cognitive and behavioral patterns to deal with stressful experience. Therefore, the process of coping may leads to good or bad adjustment. The parents must have access to various coping mechanisms. The aim of this talk is to shed light about whether mother and father of child with IDDM use different coping patterns and role of pediatric nurse to deal with the family of child with IDDM.

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