Demographic risk factors, mediators, and moderators in youths' diabetes metabolic control.

Background: Socioeconomic status (SES) is one of the most frequently identified and potent predictors of disease morbidity and mortality. It also predicts diabetes care and metabolic control, yet it is often confounded with parental marital status and ethnicity in pediatric samples.

Purpose: Key demographic risk factors for poorer metabolic control in adolescents with type I diabetes are examined to distinguish their relative effects, along with disease care mediators and family environment moderators.

Predictors of youth diabetes care behaviors and metabolic control: a structural equation modeling approach.

Objective: To empirically test a biopsychosocial model of predictors of youth diabetes care behaviors and metabolic control.

Methods: A cross-sectional multisite study of youths (N = 222) with T1D (mean age = 12.6) used structural equation modeling to examine interrelations among predictors, with follow-up analyses of covariance (ANCOVAs).

Training in pediatric psychology: a survey of predoctoral internship programs.

Objective: To describe internship training in pediatric psychology and to determine its correspondence with the recommendations of the Society of Pediatric Psychology (SPP) Task Force on Training.

Methods: A survey based on the Task Force recommendations was sent to all internship programs that reported offering a major rotation in pediatrics.

Results: Opportunities in a wide range of assessment and intervention strategies were available.

Sibling relationships and behavior after pediatric traumatic brain injury.

To evaluate long-term outcomes for siblings of children with traumatic brain injury (TBI), measures of sibling relationships and sibling behavior were collected an average of 4 years postinjury. The study sample included participants in a larger longitudinal study who had school-aged siblings, including 34 with severe TBI, 30 with moderate TBI, and 39 with orthopedic injuries not involving brain insult (ORTHO group). Group comparisons revealed more negative sibling relationships in families of children with TBI than in families of children in the ORTHO group, but only for mixed-gender sibling pairings.