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 and materials: In this qualitative study, data was collected through semi-structured interview technique and was analyzed 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 centers in Iran providing care to the families of children with diabetes. Data analysis was performed using Corbin and Strauss approach. Data was analyzed with using MAXQDA Software (version 10).

Results: The core category of “Living in the orbit of diabetes” addresses the story of how the family managing children with diabetes within the family which included Main categories ‘shaping the children with diabetes’, “the formation of diabetes family”, and ‘window to the endless orbit’.

Conclusion: The outcome of “Living in the orbit of diabetes” results capturing the control of children with diabetes in the family. 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.

Keywords: family, managing of children with diabetes, ‘living in the orbit of diabetes’