Intrinsic Motivation and Glycemic Control in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes
- Leilani Greening, PHD12,
- Laura Stoppelbein, PHD2,
- George Moll, MD, PHD3,
- Nicole Palardy, PHD1 and
- Matthew Hocking, BS1
- 1Department of Psychology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
- 2Department of Psychiatry, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi
- 3Department of Pediatrics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi
- Address correspondence to L. Greening, Box 870348, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0348. E-mail: green{at}bama.ua.edu
Treatment for type 1 diabetes is often difficult for adolescents because of the multiple daily tasks required for successful management. Hence, adolescents who are more intrinsically motivated to manage their health might be more persistent with their diabetes care and consequently be in better glycemic control. We therefore examined the proportion of variance that intrinsic motivation contributed to HbA1c in 43 adolescents diagnosed with type 1 diabetes relative to other disease-related and psychosocial factors that have been linked to glycemic control in cross-sectional research.
After receiving approval from the institutional review board, we recruited adolescents with a mean age of 14.14 ± 1.73 years from a university-affiliated diabetes clinic to participate in the study. All of …
