A Pandemic Perspective: Analyzing the Impact of COVID-19 on Diabetes Management and Mood Through the Lens of Location and Family Conflict.
Hailey Moore, Fayo Abadula, Sydney Garretson and 3 others
PMID 35446187WHAT IT FOUND
Teens with T1DM and their parents reported that more diabetes-related family conflict was linked with greater pandemic impact on diabetes management and mood.
Teens in Washington, DC reported more mood impact than those in Nashville.
Key findings
01Parent-reported impact of COVID-19 on their child's diabetes management was weakly positively correlated with teen and parent reports of diabetes-related family conflict.
02Higher parent-reported impact of COVID-19 on their child's mood was related to higher teen-reported diabetes-related family conflict (r = 0.31, P < .01) and parent-reported diabetes-related family conflict (r = 0.23, P = .03).
03Teens at the Washington, DC site reported a significantly greater effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on their mood (M = 30.8, SD = 8.2) than teens at the Nashville, TN site (M = 27.2, SD = 7.7); t(92) = −2.10, P = .039.
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What it does not show
The study was cross-sectional, so it cannot show what caused changes in diabetes management or mood. It used baseline survey data from an ongoing trial, not results from the trial intervention. The pandemic survey may not have measured diabetes management impact consistently: α = .57 for parents and .68 for teens. Most parents in the sample were female (83.2%), which may limit how well parent findings represent other caregivers. All main measures were self-report questionnaires completed by teens and parents.
Declared interests
No author conflict-of-interest declaration is supplied; the article is tagged as supported by NIH extramural funding.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that diabetes-related family conflict, location, or device use caused changes in mood or diabetes management. This was a cross-sectional survey of self-reported associations, and it did not test the trial intervention.