Pre-adolescent children's experiences of receiving diabetes-related support from friends and peers: A qualitative study.
David RankinJeni HardenKatharine D BarnardJohn StephenSimita KumarJulia LawtonPublished in: Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy (2018)
Friends and peers provide several kinds of support to pre-adolescent children with diabetes. Health professionals could consider ways to assist small friendship groups to undertake monitoring and prompting, helping and normalizing roles. Parents, schools and health professionals could explore ways to normalize self-management practices to better support children with diabetes in school settings.