Teenage diabetics often find it difficult to maintain the motivation to take their two daily injections when they start managing their medication independently.
Children Now has learned that a psychology-based intervention for children with type 1 diabetes, including training for non-psychological staff, is being developed by the NHS Health Technology Assessment Programme.
Dr John Gregory, senior lecturer in paediatric endocrinology at the University of Wales College of Medicine, which will run the project, starting in June, said the move followed a review showing there was a dearth of successful interventions to help diabetic children change their behaviour and to properly manage the condition.
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