The incidence of diabetes is increasing in children as in adults. Today, there are about 30 thousand children in our country. Healthy Life Counselor Neslihan Sipahi, who supports children and families with diabetes adaptation and support sessions, gave information on this subject.
Diabetes Mellitus (DM), the incidence of which is increasing rapidly, is a new life experience for the person. Since it is a lifelong chronic disease, it affects the lives of individuals and their families in all aspects, causing problems, conflicts and changes in psychosocial dimensions as well as physiopathological changes in individuals.
For example, when a child has diabetes, diabetes is now in the family. The family begins to act as a child's artificial pancreas. Or when one of the spouses has diabetes, the spouse should also have knowledge and education. All these changes may adversely affect diabetes management, exacerbate diabetes, negatively affect the life span and quality of patients, and cause the person to experience problems in adapting and accepting the disease. The patient with diabetes, who needs to keep both his disease and his life under control, must have sufficient knowledge, skills and positive attitudes in order to successfully manage diabetes.
Motivational interviews play an important role at this stage. Negative attitudes of patients about diabetes should be determined and corrected and support should be given to develop positive attitudes. Bearing in mind that the use of theory and models is effective in counseling practices in order to achieve these goals; It is necessary to determine the stressors experienced by individuals with diabetes, to address the needs holistically and to determine appropriate strategies by using models that have a human-oriented holistic approach and emphasize cooperation with the patient in determining all goals and planning interventions.
Healthy Life Consultant Neslihan Sipahi said, “When people talk about diabetes, type 2 diabetes comes to mind. They also make up the majority of the society, but today there are about 30 thousand children under the age of 18 with type 1 diabetes in our country. In fact, it would not be wrong to say that there is a diabetes pandemic in our country. The digital age and inactivity, wrong diet and packaged food preferences, poor quality sleep and negative health behaviors have a great impact on this. Scientific studies have shown that diabetes can be prevented (especially type 44 diabetes) by providing a 58-2% risk reduction with a healthy lifestyle change, that diabetics reduce their A1c levels, guide positive changes in healthy eating and physical activity habits, and reduce the risk of complications and other diseases. and it is shown that it causes a decrease in health expenditure costs.
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