[Chances and limitations of professional support for adolescent mothers, their partners and babies: a case history].

Adolescent pregnancy usually leads to notification and involvement of a broad array of sources of support. It is then important to assess risk factors and resources with regard unique to the young woman, as well as to protect the (as yet unborn) child. However, due to the complexity of such cases, helpers often lose sight of other family members whose lives undergo a radical change, such as, for example, the child's father.

Evaluation of patients' opinion and metabolic control after transfer of young adults with type 1 diabetes from a pediatric diabetes clinic to adult care.

Background: Transferring adolescents with diabetes from pediatric to adult care remains a challenge and the outcome is often unknown. The aims of this study were to determine the patients' perception of transfer arrangements and to analyze health care use and metabolic control.

Methods: A telephone questionnaire was conducted for patients who had been transferred from the pediatric clinic to adult care between 1995 and 2003.

[Health-related quality of life of siblings of children with type 1 diabetes mellitus].

Background Information: A chronic illness in childhood or adolescents constitutes a drastic event for the whole family, especially for the healthy siblings. This could impair their quality of life.

Patients And Methods: We designed a case-control-study in three centres (Leipzig, Giessen and Augsburg) with questionaires sent to 72 diabetic children, 71 of their siblings and 63 children of neighbourhood (controls) aged between 8 and 16 years.

[Regulatory disorders in infancy: data of the leipzig counseling service for parents with infants and toddlers].

Background: About 25 % of children in the first three years attract attention due to regulatory disorders like un-apeasable crying, chronic fussing, sleep- and feeding-disorders as well as excessive temper-tantrums. Meanwhile there are many counselling services in Germany, which provide help for parents.

Patients: Data of 153 families with infants and toddlers till the age of three, who visited the Leipzig counselling service during a period of two years.