Sweet sins: Frequency and psychiatric motivation for theft among adolescents with type 1 diabetes

Pediatric Diabetes

Volumn 12, Issue 4 PART 2, 2011, Pages 424-428

  Butwicka, Agnieszka ^a   Fendler, Wojciech M ^a   Zalepa, Adam ^b   Szadkowska, Agnieszka ^a   Gmitrowicz, Agnieszka ^a   Mlynarski, Wojciech M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Children and adolescents; Psychiatric co morbidity; Theft; Type 1 diabetes

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; METABOLIC REGULATION; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEFT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MOTIVATION; THEFT;

EID: 79957518358     PISSN: 1399543X     EISSN: 13995448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-5448.2010.00721.x     Document Type: Article

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