[Coping with illness by young diabetic patients: a comparison from the viewpoint of patients, their parents and personal physicians].

108 adolescents with type 1 diabetes as well as their parents and physicians in charge were studied in a prospective longitudinal design. Most of the juvenile patients were of good metabolic control. The results from different questionnaires of coping are presented. The opinions of the patients, their parents and the physicians in charge differ in some important aspects. Furthermore there are significant differences between the patients of best versus worst metabolic control as far as the extent of self reported psychosocial problems related with the disease is concerned.