Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Diabetes is the disease of family and parents of children with diabetes face different problems which concerns meeting the developmental needs of children and daily control of children with diabetes.Purpose: This article aims to explain how to manage diabetes around the child’s life within the family.Methods and materials: In this qualitative study, data was collected through semi-structured interview technique and...

Background: Diabetes is the disease of family and parents of children with diabetes face different problems which concerns meeting the developmental needs of children and daily control of children with diabetes.Purpose: This article aims to explain how to manage diabetes around the child’s life within the family.Methods & materials: In this qualitative study, data was collected through semi-structured interview technique a...

Background: Diabetes is considered as one of the most common chronic diseases. Since diabetes complications can lead to falls in the elderly and according to the fact that the risks associated with falling are multifactorial, the aim of this study was to explore the association between activity of daily living (ADL) and falling in older people with diabetes admitted to the selected hospitals of tehran university of medical sciences.Methods: A case–c...

Background: One of important issues which should be taught by the multidisciplinary health care team in diabetes is related to the diabetic foot prevention and care. In this regard, nurses as one of team members are able to provide specific services to the patient including patient education and DF care. The aim of this study was to explore impact of work with “real patient” as a teaching strategy for nurses in the workshop.Methods: Two days di...