Abstract
Type 1 diabetes mellitus alters the child's and their parents' life. The child must acquire necessary competencies that would help manage the disease. The child with diabetes mellitus can receive information from a variety of learning environments. Research object is – environments for the development of disease management competencies of children with diabetes mellitus. Research aim is to reveal environments for the development of disease management competencies of children with diabetes mellitus by highlighting what helps a child with diabetes to acquire disease management competencies, and the challenges occurring while acquiring those competencies. Research methods: theoretical – analysis, comparison and generalization of scientific literature; empirical – a semi-structured interview method has been used for the collection of data; method of content analysis has been applied for the study of research data. Participants of the research were children with diabetes mellitus. The empirical study revealed that environments for the development of disease management competencies of children with diabetes mellitus are the following: environment of medical institutions and the professionals working there, family environment (family members), and the environment of camps for children with diabetes mellitus, including organizers of camps and specialists and volunteers invited. The research determined challenges of developing disease management competencies of children with diabetes mellitus in various learning environments.
Highlights
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disease characterized by impaired absorption of glucose in the body
Poor control of type 1 diabetes mellitus can lead to chronic complications that disrupt the normal life of a child [3]
The research revealed that one of the challenges of developing disease management competencies of children with diabetes mellitus in the environment of medical institutions is that information is provided “medically”: “sometimes you don’t understand everything what the doctor says, as they speak in terms and it’s complicated. . . ” (A), “I believe it could be explained in simple words what diabetes mellitus is, because I don’t understand everything” (B)
Summary
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disease characterized by impaired absorption of glucose in the body. For the child with diabetes it is important to create the most favourable environments for the development of disease management skills/competencies. The scientific problem implies a question: what environment creates preconditions for a child with diabetes mellitus to acquire competencies of disease management? The following article seeks to reveal environments for the development of disease management competencies of children with diabetes mellitus by answering the problematic question: how does a child with diabetes mellitus acquire disease management competencies? Research object is environments for the development of disease management competencies of children with diabetes mellitus. Research aim is to reveal environments for the development of disease management competencies of children with diabetes mellitus, highlighting who helps them to acquire disease management competencies and what challenges they face while acquiring the following competencies.
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