Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Diabetes is the disease of family and parents of children with diabetes face different problems which concerns meeting the developmental needs of children and daily control of children with diabetes.

Purpose: This article aims to explain how to manage diabetes around the child’s life within the family.

Methods & materials: In this qualitative study, data was collected through semi-structured interview technique and was analysed using Grounded Theory approach. The process of data collection was carried out by purposeful sampling. The participants included 13 individuals from nine families (11 parents and two children with diabetes). The research environment was health canters in Iran providing care to the families of children with diabetes. Data analysis was performed using Corbin and Strauss approach. Data was analysed with using MAXQDA software (version 10).

Results: The core category of “Movement in the orbit of diabetes” addresses the story of how to keep track of managing children with diabetes within the family which included Main categories “ride in the waves of care”, “provision of diabetes backpack”, and “movement focused on children with diabetes”.

Conclusion: The outcome of “Movement in the orbit of diabetes” results capturing the control of diabetes. The findings of the present study may play an integral part to help households with practicing appropriate strategies for the management of children with diabetes.