Assimilating the impact of diabetes mellitus in children under the perspective of mothers

Paulo Cesar Teles Correia Júnior,Ana Maria Parente Garcia Alencar,Vitória De Cássia Felix Almeida,Ana Raquel Bezerra Saraiva,Sandra Mara Pimentel Duavy Pereira

doi:10.15253/2175-6783.2014000100009

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Journal: Rev Rene	Publication Date: Feb 16, 2014
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Abstract

Aimed at assimilating the impact of diabetes mellitus in children and in the family life under the perspective of the primary caregiver. Descriptive qualitative research conducted with seven mothers in a center of reference in Crato, CE, Brazil in the months of June and July, 2011. With these major thematic categories: characterization of family caregivers; implications of diabetes mellitus in the child's life under the perspective of the mother; family experience facing diabetes. Behavioral changes in children such as aggressiveness, feelings of denial and fear were assimilated. It was also observed that the care of diabetic children falls back on the mother. Thus, we see the need to implement a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and humanized care, aimed at patients with diabetes mellitus and their caregivers, with emphasis on health education.

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Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by hyperglycemia, resulting from deficiency in the secretion and/or action of insulin
In Brazil there are approximately eight million bearers of diabetes and from these, 5% to 10% are attacked by DM Type 1 (DM1), frequent in childhood and adolescence, whose incidence has increased considerably[3,4]
The data collected were organized into themes: Implications of DM in the life of the child under the perspective of the mother, apprehension related to behavioral changes, feelings, reactions and control of DM were evident; Experience of the family facing diabetes, whose assimilation was related to the discovery of the disease, acceptance/rejection of DM, financial issues, leisure and relationship and assistance of the therapy

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Introduction

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by hyperglycemia, resulting from deficiency in the secretion and/or action of insulin. It involves specific pathogenic processes, such as the destruction of the beta cells of the pancreas, resistance to the action of insulin, disorders of the secretion of insulin, among others. With this it can generate complications, malfunctions and insufficiency in several organs, being one of the main causes of renal insufficiency, amputation of the lower limbs, blindness, cardiovascular disease and mortality[1,2]. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) reveals that more than seventy thousand children and adolescents are attacked by DM1 each year[5,6]

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