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Mothers' Experience Supporting Life Adjustment in Children With T1DMHungkuang University, Shalu, Taiwan
National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, peifan{at}ym.edu.tw
Taipei MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan The purpose of this study was to use a phenomenological approach to explore the essential structure of mothers' life experience when helping their first- to third-grade children with Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) make life adjustments at school. Twelve mothers whose children had been diagnosed with T1DM participated in this study at a teaching hospital in Taipei, Taiwan. Study results revealed six themes and identified the presence of various dynamic relationships between T1DM symptoms, the children's development, and collaborative self-care.
Key Words: diabetes life adjustment nursing phenomenology school-age children
This version was published on February
1, 2008 Western Journal of Nursing Research, Vol. 30, No. 1,
96-110 (2008) This article has been cited by other articles:
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