Family therapy for adolescents with poorly controlled diabetes: initial test of clinical significance.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We examined a structured family therapy approach in promoting clinically meaningful improvements in parent-adolescent conflict in adolescents with poorly controlled diabetes.

Method

Eighteen adolescents with poorly controlled diabetes and their parent(s) participated in 10 sessions of home-based Behavioral Family Systems Therapy (BFST). Outcome comparisons were made using a sample of adolescents with poorly controlled diabetes (n = 40) from a previous study. Clinically significant improvements were determined by calculating SD differences between treatment and comparison groups on measures of diabetes-related and general parent-adolescent conflict.

Results

Home-based BFST produced change in diabetes-related family conflict ranging from 1/3 to 1/2 SD and gene

SUBMITTER: Harris MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2773532 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature