Telethon Kids Institute is conducting several studies to understand how it can help relieve diabetes-related distress.
The research will investigate how changes in blood glucose levels affect anxiety and psychological wellbeing for adolescents, and monitor how patients cope with the daily stress of diabetes, so that interventions can be designed to help ease the burden of living with type 1 diabetes.
Dr Keely Bebbington, mental health research lead at Telethon Kids Institute’s Children’s Diabetes Centre at Perth Children's Hospital (pictured), says researchers are developing and piloting an exercise intervention aimed at improving mental health outcomes in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
Read the full story in The West Australian here.
First published Wednesday 29 July 2020.