""Our results suggest that there is no universal approach to successfully managing diabetes," Dr. Ronald J. Iannotti told Reuters Health. "Instead, families display their own unique and distinctive styles of handling the condition, and this style needs to be facilitated or, if necessary, appropriately adjusted.""

"Iannotti, from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, studied 156 adolescents with type 1 diabetes and their families and found they could be classified into three groups: a methodical self-management style; an adaptive self-management style; and an inadequate self-management style. "

"Inadequate self-management types tended to be older than other types, the investigators report in the journal Diabetes Care, and methodical self-management type patients had had diabetes for a significantly shorter length of time than the other two types."

"Conventional insulin injection treatment was more common than treatment with flexible regimens in the methodical self-management and in the inadequate self-management groups, the researchers note, whereas flexible regimens were more common in the adaptive self-management
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