AHRQ Innovations Exchange | Coping Skills Training Helps Adolescents Improve Quality of Life and Ability to Manage Their Diabetes

Coping Skills Training Helps Adolescents Improve Quality of Life and Ability to Manage Their Diabetes

Snapshot
Summary
The Yale School of Nursing created a Coping Skills Training program for adolescents with type 1 diabetes that teaches communication and social problem-solving skills, with the goal of improving peer, school, and family relationships and enhancing diabetes self-management. Various studies suggest that the program may be moderately more effective than general diabetes education in helping students improve disease management skills and control blood glucose levels.

See the Results section for new outcomes on blood glucose control and coping skills on two new diabetic populations (updated September 2009).

Evidence Rating
Moderate: The evidence consists of several small trials that compare various measures of diabetes self-management and blood glucose control in program participants with those receiving diabetes education alone.


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AHRQ Innovations Exchange | Coping Skills Training Helps Adolescents Improve Quality of Life and Ability to Manage Their Diabetes