Abstract

Reducing stress in adolescents with diabetes: what can be done?

Author(s): Korey K Hood

Stress complicates diabetes management and promotes poor outcomes. In this era of intensive management of diabetes, there is greater risk for stress given the complex and demanding nature of management. Considering this elevated risk, efforts to prevent and reduce risk should carry considerable benefit for the adolescent’s psychological functioning, as well as diabetes-specific health outcomes. The next steps are to continue to build the evidence base of effective interventions and implement them in clinics. If we are successful at that, more adolescents will achieve optimal diabetes management and glycemic control, which seems unattainable at this time