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Parent Perspectives Of Their Child’S Diagnosis With Type 1 Diabetes, Elizabeth Kerr, Dr. Donna Freeborn
Parent Perspectives Of Their Child’S Diagnosis With Type 1 Diabetes, Elizabeth Kerr, Dr. Donna Freeborn
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease where the beta cells of the pancreas stop secreting insulin. Insulin is the hormone that delivers blood sugar to the body tissues. This life changing diagnosis affects not only the newly diagnosed child—It affects the whole family.
Although research has previously been done on parent experiences raising a child with type 1 diabetes, no research has been done from the perspective of a parent who has raised their child to adulthood. This unique outlook provides greater perspective and insight on the experience as a whole. The purpose of this project was to increase …