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38th Meeting of the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes

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Symposium 4 – Diabetes Care

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Living with diabetes: normal but different, different but normal

Marshall Marie

Background: The notion of ‘normal’ is dominant in the lives of children with type 1 diabetes and their parents, because living with diabetes not only makes families different but it also makes their pursuit of ‘normal’ more visible.Aim: To develop a theoretical understanding of how children and their parents living with type 1 diabetes construct and perceive ‘normal’, and how they integrate ‘normal’ into their dail...