Professional becoming of male nurses: a qualitative study in Lithuania.

Purpose: To reveal the features of Lithuanian male nurses' professional becoming.

Methods: The participants were six men who had been working as nurses for over a year, and one man who had been formerly employed as a nurse for over a year. Data was collected using semi-structured interviews and analysed using inductive thematic analysis by Braun & Clarke.

Paediatric Type1 Diabetes Management and Mothers' Emotional Intelligence Interactions.

The functioning of the parents' emotional sphere is very important to a child's mental and physical health. This study focused on investigating the association between mothers' emotional intelligence (EI) and paediatric type I diabetes (T1DM) disease management in their children. We hypothesized that mothers' EI is associated with T1DM outcomes.

[Characteristics of depressiveness among adolescents with diabetes mellitus].

The objective of this article was to establish the characteristics of depressiveness among adolescents with diabetes. Adolescents aged 14 and 16 years suffering from diabetes, healthy ones, and their parents were enrolled in the study. A total of 260 adolescents (100 adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus and 160 healthy ones) were interviewed.