PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - H Close
AU  - A G Davies
AU  - D A Price
AU  - I M Goodyer
TI  - Emotional difficulties in diabetes mellitus.
AID  - 10.1136/adc.61.4.337
DP  - 1986 Apr 01
TA  - Archives of Disease in Childhood
PG  - 337--340
VI  - 61
IP  - 4
4099  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/61/4/337.short
4100  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/61/4/337.full
SO  - Arch Dis Child1986 Apr 01; 61
AB  - Sixty children and adolescents with diabetes aged between 9 and 18 years were investigated for emotional difficulties in association with their diabetic control. Seventeen (28%) had appreciable emotional or behavioural difficulties according to parental report, and seven (12%) considered themselves 'possibly depressed'. These latter patients had a mean glycosylated haemoglobin concentration below 10%, poorer self esteem, and a greater external locus of control. Three were considered not to have pronounced emotional difficulties according to parental report.