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    An exploratory study of positive and incongruent communication in young children with type 1 diabetes and their mothers.

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    Date
    2012-10-08
    Author
    Chisholm, Vivienne
    Atkinson, Leslie
    Bayrami, Lisa
    Noyes, Kathryn
    Payne, A.
    Kelnar, Chris
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    Chisholm, V., Atkinson, L., Bayrami, L., Noyes, K., Payne, A. & Kelnar, C. (2012) An exploratory study of positive and incongruent communication in young children with type 1 diabetes and their mothers., Child: Care, Health and Development, vol. 40, , pp. 85-94,
    Abstract
    Background: The incidence of type 1 diabetes is increasing in young children. However, they are overlooked in treatment adherence and intervention research despite evidence that parents often experience difficulty securing their tretament cooperatoin, especially with the diet. We investigated positive and incongruent (i.e., the co-occurrence of contradictory verbal and nonverbal messages)communication in the mother-child dyad and their association wiht child adjustment and dietary adherence outcomes. Methods: Participants were 23 6-to-8 year old children with type 1 diabetes and their mothers. We conducted dietary adherence interviews with mothers and performed nutritional analyses to assess children's consumption of extrinsic sugars (e.g., confectionary). Mothers completed a standardised assessment of child psychological adjustment. Mothers and children engaged in a videotaped problem-solving task related to the dietary regimen, with maternal and child utterances and nonverbal behaviours analysed for positive dyadic and incongruent communication. Results: Positive dyadic communication correlated with lower levels of child incongruent communication, fewer behavioural problems and better overall adjustment. Higher levels of maternal and child incongruent communication correlated with more behavioural and emotional problems and poorer overall adjustment. Higher levels of maternal incongruent communication correlated with porer dietary adherence. Conclusions: Results converge to form a conceptually and empirically coherent pattern in that behavioural indices of poorer communication in both mother and child consistently correlated with poorer child adjustment outcomes. This study shows that specific features of dyadic, child and maternal communication could be targeted in developmentally-sensitive interventions to promote positive communication in the home management of type 1 diabetes care for young children.
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cch.12004
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    https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/2846
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