Association of insulin-manipulation and psychiatric disorders : A systematic epidemiological evaluation of adolescents with type 1 diabetes in Austria

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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to systematically assess the association of insulin-manipulation (intentional under- and/or overdosing of insulin), psychiatric comorbidity and diabetes complications.

METHODS: Two diagnostic interviews (Diabetes-Self-Management-Patient-Interview and Children's-Diagnostic-Interview for Psychiatric Disorders) were conducted with 241 patients (age 10-22) with type 1 diabetes (T1D) from 21 randomly selected Austrian diabetes care centers. Medical data was derived from medical records.

RESULTS: Psychiatric comorbidity was found in nearly half of the patients with insulin-manipulation (46.3%) compared to a rate of 17.5% in patients, adherent to the prescribed insulin therapy. Depression (18.3% vs 4.9%), specific phobia (21.1% vs 2.9%), social phobia (7.0% vs 0%), and eating disorders (12.7% vs 1.9%) were elevated in patients with insulin-manipulation. Females (37.7%) were more often diagnosed (P = 0.001) with psychiatric disorders than males (18.4%). In females, the percentage of psychiatric comorbidity significantly increased with the level of non-adherence to insulin therapy. Insulin-manipulation had an effect of +0.89% in HbA1c (P = <0.001) compared to patients adherent to insulin therapy, while there was no association of psychiatric comorbidity with metabolic control (HbA1c 8.16% vs 8.12% [65.68 vs 65.25 mmol/mol]). Ketoacidosis, severe hypoglycemia, and frequency of outpatient visits in a diabetes center were highest in patients with insulin-manipulation.

CONCLUSIONS: This is the first study using a systematic approach to assess the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in patients who do or do not manipulate insulin in terms of intentional under- and/or overdosing. Internalizing psychiatric disorders were associated with insulin-manipulation, especially in female patients and insulin-manipulation was associated with deteriorated metabolic control and diabetes complications.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:20

Enthalten in:

Pediatric diabetes - 20(2019), 1 vom: 15. Feb., Seite 127-136

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Berger, Gabriele [VerfasserIn]
Waldhoer, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Barrientos, Irene [VerfasserIn]
Kunkel, Daniela [VerfasserIn]
Rami-Merhar, Birgit M [VerfasserIn]
Schober, Edith [VerfasserIn]
Karwautz, Andreas [VerfasserIn]
Wagner, Gudrun [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adolescent
Diabetes complications
Insulin
Journal Article
Medication adherence
Mental disorders
Psychology
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Systematic Review

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Date Completed 19.08.2019

Date Revised 28.07.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/pedi.12784

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM289032334