Assessment of parental awareness of diabetic ketoacidosis in children with diabetes: a cross-sectional study at a tertiary referral center in Iran
Homa Ilkhanipoor, Nima Hosseini, Hamide Barzegar, Hossein Moravej, Leila Salarian · 2026
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Diabetic ketoacidosis is a dangerous complication of childhood type 1 diabetes that parents are expected to catch early, since spotting it depends on caregivers knowing the warning signs. Homa Ilkhanipoor and co-authors measured that knowledge among 217 parents at a pediatric diabetes clinic in Shiraz, Iran. They compared what parents thought they knew with what a validated questionnaire showed they actually knew.
The scores were low across the board. Mothers, who made up four fifths of respondents, rated themselves around 1.9 out of 10 and still scored higher on tested knowledge than fathers. Tested knowledge rose with education, with longer time since diagnosis, and with having lived through a ketoacidosis admission before. It had no link to the child's recent blood sugar control. The authors call parental knowledge critically inadequate and urge targeted teaching programs.
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| CREATOR | Homa Ilkhanipoor, Nima Hosseini, Hamide Barzegar, Hossein Moravej, Leila Salarian |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |