Abstract
AIM: We aimed to determine styles of coping with stress, emotion regulation skills, eating attitudes and quality of life in children with DM type-1 and comparison of findings with healthy children. In addition, it was aimed to investigate the relationship between this findings and the presence of psychopathology, emotion regulation skills and styles of coping with stress in their mothers. METHOD: The study included 70 diabetic,70 healthy children and their mothers. During the evaluation, the Children's Depression Inventory, the Screen for Children Anxiety Related Disorders (SCARED), the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), the Eating Attitudes Test(EAT), the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory(PedsQL) and Ways of Coping Inventory (COPE) were applied to all children. In addition, DERS, COPE, Beck depression and Beck anxiety scales were applied to all mothers. RESULTS: It was found significantly more problems in diabetic group in the DERS-impulse subscale, COPE-helplessness, PedsQL-physical subgroup, EAT, SCARED scores experienced than the control group. In the scales applied to mothers of diabetic children, significantly higher scores were found in the DERS-nonacceptance subscale, deficits in emotional clarity subscale and impulse subscale, COPE-helplessness subgroup,and Beck Depression Scale. CONCLUSIONS: DM creates problems in patients' and mothers' emotional regulation skills and coping styles with stress; it also negatively affects the quality of life and eating attitudes of children.