Coeliac disease in adolescence: Coping strategies and personality factors affecting compliance with gluten-free diet.

Objectives: Patients suffering from a chronic condition such as coeliac disease (CD) need to develop coping strategies in order to preserve emotional balance and psychosocial functioning while adhering to their obligatory life-long gluten free diet (GFD). However, this can be particularly challenging for adolescents and may lead to dietary transgressions. Little is currently known about the influence of coping strategies and personality factors on dietary compliance.

Characteristics of self-regulation in adolescent girls with type 1 diabetes with and without eating disorders: a cross-sectional study.

Objectives: Pathology of the regulative mechanisms of self seems to be connected with eating disorders (EDs). The present study aimed to explore the hypothesis that there are differences in self-regulation in adolescent girls with Type 1 diabetes with and without EDs.

Design: A cross-sectional design was employed comparing patterns of self-regulation in adolescent girls with Type 1 diabetes with and without EDs in two eating status groups.

Quality of life in adolescents with treated coeliac disease: influence of compliance and age at diagnosis.

Objective: To assess the influence of gluten-free diet (GFD) compliance on the quality of life (QOL) of adolescents with coeliac disease (CD), and the impact of patient's age at time of diagnosis.

Study Design: Participants included 365 subjects: 283 adolescents (10-20 years old) with biopsy-proven CD and 82 adolescents without a chronic condition matched for age, sex, education, and social status. Their subjective QOL-comprising physical, mental, and social dimensions as defined by the World Health Organization-was measured and has been analyzed according to compliance status and age at CD diagnosis.

Eating pathology in adolescents with celiac disease.

Background: Celiac disease (CD), treated by a gluten-free diet, may represent a nonspecific trigger for the development of eating pathology, particularly in adolescence.

Objective: The authors sought to perform a systematic study on eating pathology in CD.

Method: CD patients were assessed for eating disorders by questionnaire, and body mass index was recorded.

Disturbed eating attitudes, coping styles, and subjective quality of life in adolescents with Type 1 diabetes.

Objectives: To evaluate coping styles and quality of life in youth with Type 1 diabetes with and without eating disorders and to identify relationships between these variables in each group.

Methods: Adolescents were evaluated for eating disorders with a two-stage diagnostic procedure. Adolescents with and without eating disorders then provided data on coping styles and on subjective well-being.

Eating disorders and eating problems among adolescents with type 1 diabetes: exploring relationships with temperament and character.

Objective: To determine temperament and character among adolescents with type 1 diabetes with and without disordered eating.

Method: A clinical sample of 199 adolescents from multiple centers with a mean age of 14.1 (SD, 2.

Prevalence and clinical manifestations of eating disorders in Austrian adolescents with type-1 diabetes.

Objectives: To investigate prevalence and clinical manifestations of DSM-IV clinical eating disorders and subsyndromal eating problems among adolescents with type-1 diabetes.

Method: A clinical sample of 251 adolescents with type-1 diabetes was recruited from multiple centres. Of these adolescents, 199 (96 girls and 103 boys--79.