Abstract

Introduction: This article presents the work developed by nurses from the Pediatrics Inpatient Service, with children and young people with Type I Diabetes Mellitus, inaugural episode and their families and focuses on parents' perception of the care process. It presents the results of a questionnaire applied to the parents of these children conducted in October 2016. It's an opinion study.

Objective: Evaluate the process of training parents to take care of their child with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus, inaugural episode.

Materials and Methods: we elaborated a questionnaire centered on the process of training parents from theoretical assertions recently published in the literature. We use a Liker scale to measure each of the items in the survey. We sent the same internet to 32 parents of children and young people with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus, admitted to our external consultation, whose inaugural episode of the disease was diagnosed in our Hospital and were hospitalized in the Pediatrics Service.

Conclusion: We obtained frankly positive evaluations of the care provided, focusing on informative/training aspects, training of skills and skills in parents and partnering parents/nurses in child/youth care and negotiating them.

Keywords: Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (DM1); International Diabetes Federation (IDF)

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