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.

Eating disorders and type 1 diabetes mellitus in adolescence.

One of the main difficulties in managing type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) in the young is nutritional treatment. Studies have shown that adolescents (particularly adolescent girls and young women) have an increased risk for clinical and sub-clinical eating disorders. Adjustment to the nutritional regimen and, consequently, to the management of the disease in adolescence seems to involve a complex interplay of various psychosocial and biological aspects.

Perceptions of family relationships in adolescents with anorexia nervosa and their unaffected sisters.

The family relationships of patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) have been extensively studied over recent years. However, using case-control designs with unrelated controls is subject to various cultural and familial biases. Studying subjective differential perceptions of family relationships in sister-pairs discordant for the disorder may overcome some of these limitations.

Characteristics of self-regulation in adolescent patients with anorexia nervosa.

The purpose of the study was to investigate the different modes of self-regulation in adolescent anorexia nervosa (AN). A self-system questionnaire, the Narcissism Inventory, was given to 61 adolescent females with AN and 61 controls. Patients with AN reported higher overall disturbances in self-regulation than controls.

Characteristics of self-regulation in adolescent patients with anorexia nervosa.

The purpose of the study was to investigate the different modes of self-regulation in adolescent anorexia nervosa (AN). A self-system questionnaire, the Narcissism Inventory, was given to 61 adolescent females with AN and 61 controls. Patients with AN reported higher overall disturbances in self-regulation than controls.