The purpose of this integrated review of the literature was to explore the effects of social support on diabetes-related stress, conflict, and metabolic control in adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). Social support was examined in four subgroups: adolescents with T1DM, family caregivers, peers, and teachers. Relevant findings in the literature revealed a significant deficiency of research devoted to adolescent males with diabetes as well as fathers as primary and secondary caregivers. Studies highlighted the importance of fostering autonomy and positive self-image in adolescents with T1DM and described effective interventions to improve diabetes-related stress, reduce disease-related conflict, and improve metabolic control. Findings suggested that nurses caring for adolescents with T1DM and their families should foster positive, open communication, while identifying barriers to problem solving, coping, stress, and optimal glycemic control. Interventions that educate caregivers and peers on how to better communicate and provide support are critical in fostering positive psychological and physiological outcomes in the adolescent with T1DM. The findings of this study may provide guidance in the way that nurses assess, identify, and counsel adolescents with TIDM regarding their disease management and access to support systems.

Cette thèse porte sur une population d’adolescents ayant un diabète de type 1 et leurs parents. Elle examine l’influence de la perception du diabète de type 1 par les adolescents et par leurs parents sur leur ajustement respectif à la maladie. En premier lieu sont présentées les caractéristiques du diabète de type 1, ses spécificités à l’adolescence, et les deux critères retenus pour examiner l’ajustement à la maladie : le contrôle métabolique et la qualité de vie. Après avoir défini la notion de perception de la maladie et décrit ses influences sur l’ajustement, le rôle de la perception des proches est examiné. L’étude de la perception de la maladie dans la famille en auto- et en hétéro-évaluation est ensuite proposée. Les deux axes de recherche envisagés visent à mettre en évidence l’existence d’une potentielle interprétation de la perception des proches et à en analyser l’influence sur l’ajustement à la maladie. Les deux premières études mettent en évidence l’impact de la perception du diabète en auto- et en hétéro-évaluation, par les adolescents et leurs parents, sur leur ajustement. La dernière étude permet de rendre compte, par une approche qualitative, des liens entre la perception de la maladie dans la famille et la qualité de vie des adolescents, au regard de la gestion familiale du diabète. En conclusion, nous soutenons l’intérêt de l’étude de la perception de la maladie dans la famille par le prisme de la perception interpersonnelle et de la méta-perception. Les limites de ce travail, les pistes de recherche et les perspectives d’application sont finalement discutées. / This thesis focuses on a population of adolescents with type 1 diabetes and their parents. It examines the influence of adolescents’ and their parents’ perceptions of type 1 diabetes, on their respective adjustments to the disease. First, we present the characteristics of type 1 diabetes, its specificities in adolescence, and two criteria used to examine adjustment to the disease : metabolic control and quality of life. After having defined the notion of illness perception and describing its influences on adjustment, the role of family members' perception is examined. A study of illness perception in the family through self- and hetero-evaluation is then presented. The two lines of research aim to highlight the existence of potential interpretations of the family members’ perceptions and analyze their influence on adjustment to the illness. The first two studies highlight the impact of type 1 diabetes' perception, both self- and hetero-evaluation, by adolescents and their parents on their adjustment. The last study reports, using a qualitative approach, the links between illness perception in the family and adolescents' quality of life, in light of family diabetes management. In conclusion, our studies provide further support the need to study the illness perception in the family through the prism of interpersonal perception and meta-perception. Finally, the limits of this work and research and applied perspectives are discussed.

<p>Studies concerning social consequences, gastrointestinal and urinary tract symptoms were conducted in a population-based cohort comprising patients with long-standing type 1 diabetes and matched control persons. Three different questionnaires were sent by mail to diabetic patients and control persons. After a mean duration of 28.7±2.6 years, compared to the controls the diabetic patients showed an almost 10 times higher mortality, a lower employment rate and greater need for welfare benefits. These differences were mainly due to diabetic late complications. Education, housing conditions, life-style, civil state, alcohol and smoking habits were similar in the two groups. The prevalence of gastrointestinal symptoms was significantly higher in the diabetic patients than in the controls, and this was found to be attributable to the female diabetic patients. Female diabetic patients had been treated with antibiotics for urinary tract infections more often than controls, they experienced more social problems than controls in daily life because of urinary tract problems and used clamps to prevent wetting more often than did controls. </p><p>Body composition and bone mineral density were evaluated in parts of the cohort with long-standing type 1 diabetes and control persons in another population-based cohort comprising diabetic females aged 16-19 years with type 1 diabetes since childhood and matched controls. Besides a tendency to reduced abdominal fat mass in diabetic males, no difference was observed in fat mass, muscle mass or bone mineral density between the patients with long-standing type 1 diabetes and controls. Significant correlations were found between insulin dosage and whole body fat mass in diabetic females and between serum cholesterol levels and abdominal fat mass in diabetic males. The female adolescents had a higher body mass index than the controls, and their overweight was shown to consist almost entirely of an increased fat mass. The distribution of fat, expressed as abdominal-to-leg ratio, correlated significantly to HbA1c and daily dosage of insulin. Bone mineral density did not differ between the groups. IGF I was significantly lower both in patients with long-standing type 1 diabetes and in the adolescent diabetic females compared with their matched controls.</p>

Studies concerning social consequences, gastrointestinal and urinary tract symptoms were conducted in a population-based cohort comprising patients with long-standing type 1 diabetes and matched control persons. Three different questionnaires were sent by mail to diabetic patients and control persons. After a mean duration of 28.7±2.6 years, compared to the controls the diabetic patients showed an almost 10 times higher mortality, a lower employment rate and greater need for welfare benefits. These differences were mainly due to diabetic late complications. Education, housing conditions, life-style, civil state, alcohol and smoking habits were similar in the two groups. The prevalence of gastrointestinal symptoms was significantly higher in the diabetic patients than in the controls, and this was found to be attributable to the female diabetic patients. Female diabetic patients had been treated with antibiotics for urinary tract infections more often than controls, they experienced more social problems than controls in daily life because of urinary tract problems and used clamps to prevent wetting more often than did controls. Body composition and bone mineral density were evaluated in parts of the cohort with long-standing type 1 diabetes and control persons in another population-based cohort comprising diabetic females aged 16-19 years with type 1 diabetes since childhood and matched controls. Besides a tendency to reduced abdominal fat mass in diabetic males, no difference was observed in fat mass, muscle mass or bone mineral density between the patients with long-standing type 1 diabetes and controls. Significant correlations were found between insulin dosage and whole body fat mass in diabetic females and between serum cholesterol levels and abdominal fat mass in diabetic males. The female adolescents had a higher body mass index than the controls, and their overweight was shown to consist almost entirely of an increased fat mass. The distribution of fat, expressed as abdominal-to-leg ratio, correlated significantly to HbA1c and daily dosage of insulin. Bone mineral density did not differ between the groups. IGF I was significantly lower both in patients with long-standing type 1 diabetes and in the adolescent diabetic females compared with their matched controls.

La stabilité métabolique des cellules cardiaques est dépendante d'une organisation fonctionnelle qui favorise le transfert des liaisons phosphate depuis les sites de synthèse de l'ATP (mitochondries) jusqu'aux sites d'utilisation de l'énergie. Au niveau mitochondrial, cette fonction est principalement assurée par l'Interactosome Mitochondrial, comprenant les complexes respiratoires, l'ATP synthasome fonctionnellement couplé à la créatine kinase mitochondriale et le pore de la membrane mitochondriale externe VDAC qui régit la diffusion des nucléotides adényliques sous le contrôle de protéines du cytosquelette. Il est communément admis que la situation d'ischémie/reperfusion (IR) du myocarde affecte l'organisation intracellulaire des cardiomyocytes, les phosphorylations oxydatives (OxPhos), ainsi que le transfert de l'énergie cellulaire.L'objectif de ce travail était d'étudier les mécanismes de régulation de la fonction mitochondriale par les interactions entre la tubuline BII et la membrane mitochondriale externe (MME) d'une part et l'organisation de supercomplexes respiratoires (SCR) d'autre part. Différents types de muscles striés (cardiaque et squelettique) ont été utilisés pour étudier le lien entre la tubuline BII et la perméabilité de la MME pour les nucléotides adényliques. De plus, le rôle de la tubuline BII et de l'organisation des SCR ont été étudiés dans la situation physiopathologique de l'IR cardiaque.Dans les cardiomyocytes, comme dans les cellules issues de muscles squelettiques oxydatifs de rats adultes, la tubuline BII est colocalisée avec les mitochondries et la perméabilité de la MME pour l'ADP est faible. A l'aide du système pyruvate kinase/phosphoénolpyruvate, destiné à piéger l'ADP extramitochondrial, nous avons montré que l'affinité apparente d'OxPhos pour l'ADP est directement liée à la perméabilité de la MME. Ainsi, dans le muscle cardiaque comme dans les muscles squelettiques oxydatifs, un fort Km apparent pour l'ADP est associé à une faible perméabilité de la MME à l'ADP et à une forte expression de tubuline BII, présente sous une forme non-polymérisée. A l'inverse, dans les muscles glycolytiques, la très faible teneur en tubuline BII non-polymérisée est associée à une forte perméabilité de la MME aux nucléotides adényliques (faible Km apparent pour l'ADP).Les effets de l'ischémie (20 ou 45 minutes) et de la reperfusion cardiaque (30 minutes) ont été étudiés sur un modèle de coeur isolé perfusé de rat. Les principaux résultats sont que la séquence d'IR induit un réarrangement de la tubuline BII, associé à une réduction du Km apparent pour l'ADP, une baisse du contrôle de la respiration par la créatine et une diminution de la capacité d'OxPhos. Les modifications observées étaient dépendantes de la durée de l'ischémie et variables d'un cœur à l'autre. De plus, le groupe soumis à 20 minutes d'ischémie était caractérisé par la présence de SCR incluant le complexe I et l'absence de perte de cytochrome c (suggérant l'absence d'apoptose cellulaire). A l'inverse, 45 minutes d'ischémie suivies de reperfusion ont conduit à une perte de cytochrome c et à un remodelage de l'ultrastructure mitochondriale, sans modification de l'organisation des SCR.En conclusion, nos résultats soulignent l'importance des interactions mitochondrie-cytosquelette, et plus particulièrement celles impliquant la tubuline BII, dans la compartimentation intracellulaire des nucléotides adényliques et les transferts d'énergie dans les muscles striés oxydatifs. Par ailleurs, la séquence d'IR myocardique induit une désorganisation de la tubuline BII, qui contribue à la dysfonction mitochondriale. Enfin, l'absence de réorganisation des SCR quand la lésion d'IR est irréversible (45 minutes d'ischémie) suggère que le réarrangement des SCR observé après 20 minutes d'ischémie pourrait être l'un des mécanismes adaptatifs mis en jeu pour prévenir la dysfonction mitochondriale à la suite d'une séquence d'IR. / Cardiac metabolic stability is highly dependent on the intracellular functional organization which favors compartmentalized phosphoryl flux transfer between sites of mitochondrial ATP synthesis and sites of ATP hydrolysis (mainly myofibrillar ATPases). At the level of mitochondria, this function is provided by Mitochonrial Interactosom (IM) which includes respiratory complexes, ATP Synthasom coupled functionally to Mitochondrial Creatine Kinase (MtCK) and Voltage-Dependent Anion Channel (VDAC) regulating ATP/ADP diffusion through its interaction with cytoskeleton proteins. Cardiac ischemia/reperfusion (IR) injury alters intracellular organization, oxidative phosphorylation (OxPhos) and compartmentalized intracellular phosphoryl flux transfer.The aim of this work was to study the regulation of mitochondrial activity by B tubulin II interaction with MOM and by respiratory supercomplex (RSC) organization, under physiological conditions as well as in ischemia/reperfusion in striated muscles. For this purpose, different types of striated muscles (cardiac and skeletal) were used for studying the link between B tubulin II and MOM permeability to adenine nucleotides. In addition, the role of B tubulin II and RSC organization was studied in the pathophysiological context of cardiac ischemia/reperfusion.In cardiac and oxidative skeletal muscles from adult Wistar rats, B tubulin II is colocalized with mitochondria and associated with low MOM permeability to ADP. Using pyruvate kinase and phosphoenolpyruvate trapping system for ADP, we show that the apparent affinity of OxPhos for ADP can be directly linked to the permeability of MOM. High apparent Km for ADP in cardiac and oxidative skeletal muscle is associated with low MOM permeability to ADP and high expression of non-polymerized B tubulin II. Very low expression of non-polymerized B tubulin II in glycolytic muscles is associated with high MOM permeability for adenine nucleotides (low apparent Km for ADP).The effect of the IR-injury was studied by subjecting isolated and perfused Wistar rat hearts to total ischemia (for 20 min and 45 min) followed by 30 min of reperfusion (I20R and I45R groups, respectively). The IR-injury induced intracellular rearrangement of B tubulin II was associated with decreased apparent Km for ADP, creatine-control of respiration and reduced OxPhos capacity. Observed changes were dependent on the duration of ischemia and were heterogeneously present across hearts. Additionally, in the I20R group we evidenced an increase in the content of the RSC embodying complex I in the absence of cytochrome c release (evidencing the absence of apoptosis). Forty five minutes of ischemia followed by reperfusion resulted in increased cytochrome c release and mitochondrial cristae remodeling without alteration of RSC organization.The results of this study highlight the importance of cytoskeleton-mitochondria interactions, and particularly that of B tubulin II, for adenine nucleotide intracellular compartmentalization and phosphoryl flux transfer in oxidative striated muscles. In addition, cardiac IR was shown to induce B tubulin II disorganization contributing to mitochondrial dysfunction. The absence of the RSC reorganization after irreversible IR injury (45 minutes of ischemia) suggests that the rearrangement of RSC observed after 20 minutes of ischemia could be an adaptive mechanism to overcome the IR-induced alterations of mitochondrial function.