Illness identity and adjusting to type I diabetes: A four-wave longitudinal study.

Jessica RassartLeen OrisSofie Prikken Eveline R Goethals Koen RaymaekersIlse WeetsPhilip MoonsKoen Luyckx

Published in: Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association (2021)

We identified small but interesting changes in three out of four illness identity dimensions. Prospective associations between illness identity and diabetes-specific functioning were bidirectional in nature. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

Keyphrases

type diabetes
cardiovascular disease
glycemic control
emergency department
metabolic syndrome
insulin resistance