Katherine W Bauer1,2, Marisa E Hilliard3, Dana Albright4, Sharon L Lo5, Emily M Fredericks4, Alison L Miller5,6. 1. Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 3854 SPH I, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2029, USA. kwbauer@umich.edu. 2. Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. kwbauer@umich.edu. 3. Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA. 4. Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 5. Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 6. Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Abstract
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Youth with strong self-regulation (SR), or the ability to manage thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, engage in more effective type 1 diabetes (T1D) management. However, while parent support and engagement are critical to ensuring positive youth T1D outcomes, it is rarely considered that parents' SR may also influence youth T1D management. If this is the case, novel interventions to improve parents' SR or ensure adequate support for parents with SR challenges offer great potential to improve family functioning and youth T1D management. RECENT FINDINGS: Theoretical and preliminary empirical evidence suggests that parental SR impacts family processes that support youth T1D treatment regimen adherence. Furthermore, parent and youth SR likely interact, with high parent SR enhancing the positive effects of high youth SR or compensating for low youth SR. Continued research is needed to better understand the ways in which parent SR matters to youth T1D management and identify how to support improvements in T1D management among families of parents with low SR.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Youth with strong self-regulation (SR), or the ability to manage thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, engage in more effective type 1 diabetes (T1D) management. However, while parent support and engagement are critical to ensuring positive youth T1D outcomes, it is rarely considered that parents' SR may also influence youth T1D management. If this is the case, novel interventions to improve parents' SR or ensure adequate support for parents with SR challenges offer great potential to improve family functioning and youth T1D management. RECENT FINDINGS: Theoretical and preliminary empirical evidence suggests that parental SR impacts family processes that support youth T1D treatment regimen adherence. Furthermore, parent and youth SR likely interact, with high parent SR enhancing the positive effects of high youth SR or compensating for low youth SR. Continued research is needed to better understand the ways in which parent SR matters to youth T1D management and identify how to support improvements in T1D management among families of parents with low SR.
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Keywords:
Executive function; Parenting; Pediatric type 1 diabetes; Self-regulation