Diabetes in Children and Adolescents
Professional Resource Guide
This professional resource guide about diabetes in children and adolescents has been compiled by the MCH Digital Library at Georgetown University. It offers a selection of current, high-quality resources for professionals (health professionals, program administrators, and researchers) about diabetes prevalence, diagnosis, management, type 2 diabetes prevention, and pediatric diabetes research. Separate sections present resources about medications and monitoring and nutrition. Separate briefs point to resources for families and schools. This professional resource guide will be updated regularly.
See Overview of Diabetes in Children and Adolescents. This fact sheet from the National Diabetes Education Program describes types of diabetes; prevalence, diagnosis, treatment, and management of diabetes in children and adolescents; monitoring complications; visiting the health care team; helping children and adolescents manage diabetes; and type 2 diabetes prevention strategies.
- Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ).
Provides topical information on diabetes,
on health care outcomes; quality;
and cost, use, and access;
evidence
reports and research findings about
children and adolescents with diabetes.
Presents the Diabetes Workbook and Resource Guide to provide guidance to states to assess the quality of
diabetes care and create
quality-improvement strategies.
Offers access to the Healthcare
Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), and
the National Quality
Measures Clearinghouse.
-
Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists (ADCES).
Presents practice documents, education
programs and webinars, and research and
meeting information for diabetes educators.
- American
Diabetes Association (ADA): Professional
Resources Online.
Presents
practice guidelines; conference and
continuing-education information, materials,
webinars, and research tools.
- Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Offers resources and initiatives about
diabetes in children and adolescents including Preventing Type 2 Diabetes in Kids. Also see the
Diabetes
Public Health Resource,
information
about lifestyle programs, and projects that focus on specific geographic areas or populations including state, local, and national partner
diabetes programs.
Diabetes Data and Statistics. Access the U.S. Diabetes Surveillance System, the National Diabetes Statistics Report, and additional resources for key diabetes data and statistics.
Guide to Community Preventive Services: Diabetes. Contains recommendations for selected population-based interventions addressing diabetes prevention and control that focus on health-care-system interventions and self-management education.
- Healthy People
2030. Information about this national health-promotion and disease-prevention
initiative of the Department of Health and Human Services. View the overview, objectives, and recommended interventions and resources for diabetes.
- Indian
Health Service (IHS): Special Diabetes Program for Indians (SDPI).
Provides program, grants, and training
information and resources about preventing
and controlling diabetes in American
Indians and Alaska Natives. Offers an overview of best
practices focused on areas for improvement of diabetes prevention and treatment outcomes in communities and clinics.
- National
Institute of Diabetes and Digestive
and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK): Diabetes
Research.
Presents information about diabetes
research funded by NIDDK, including
clinical research, diabetes research
centers, committees and advisory
groups, and conferences.
Making Systems-wide Inprovments in Diabetes Care. Provides models and tools to help health professionals improve diabetes prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
- SEARCH
for Diabetes in Youth.
Describes this multi-center study focusing
on children and adolescents with diabetes
in the United States. The study aims
to examine diabetes prevalence, how
type 1 and type 2 diabetes differ,
diabetes complications, types of care
and treatment available, and quality-of-life issues.
Includes contact information for the
six clinical
centers
participating in the study. SEARCH
is funded by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) and
the National
Institute of Diabetes and Digestive
and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).
Additional Electronic Publications
- Gold MR, Briefel R. 2007. Study
of Federal Spending on Diabetes:
An Opportunity for Change. Washington, DC: Mathematica
Policy Research, Inc. [Report].
See the following set of MCH Digital Library resource briefs to identify additional data and statistics, literature and research, and programs about diabetes in children and adolescents.
- Maternal and Child Health Data and Statistics
- Maternal and Child Health Literature and Research Databases
- Maternal and Child Health Programs Databases
- Breakthrough T1D.
Articles and stories in research, advocacy, initiatives, and support. [formerly Juvenile
Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)]
- National
Diabetes Education Program (NDEP): News & Notes. This monthly electronic newsletter offers information about new products and activities from NDEP.
- See the MCH Digital Library family resource brief Diabetes in Kids and Teens.
- See the MCH Digital Library school resource brief Diabetes.
Resources on Specific Aspects of Diabetes Care
- American
Diabetes Association (ADA): Treatment
and Care.
Presents information for families
about blood glucose control; insulin,
other injectable medications, and
oral medication; transplantation,
including islet cell transplants;
emergency preparedness; flu and pneumonia
shots;
and working
with the health care team.
- Food
and Drug Administration (FDA).
Contains information about medical
devices, including glucose
testing devices,
and drug products. Also
provides news about
product approvals, safety, and recalls.
- KidsHealth
Diabetes Center: Medications and
Monitoring. Presents
information in English and Spanish
for parents, teens, and kids about the importance
of diabetes control, helping kids deal with injections and blood tests, how to give an insulin injection, medicines for diabetes, and monitoring blood sugar. Includes a blood glucose record.
- MedlinePlus:
Diabetes Medicines.
Links to information
about diabetes medicines in English,
Spanish, and several other languages.
Also see MedlinePlus: Islet
Cell Transplantation.
- See the MCH Digital Library resource brief Medications.
- AGRICOLA
(AGRICultural OnLine Access).
Contains bibliographic information for
agricultural literature including many
child and adolescent nutrition publications.
AGRICOLA is organized into two data sets
(books and journal articles). To identify
books or articles on the topic, click
on Keyword Search. Enter the term, diabetes.
In the next row, enter children adolescents and
select
"any of these" and "Keyword Anywhere" in
the two fields to the right. Click on Search.
AGRICOLA is a service of the National
Agricultural Library (NAL).
- American
Diabetes Association (ADA): Diabetes FoodHub.
Manage diabetes by simplifing the meal planning process for families by providing a comprehensive resource for healthy recipes and nutrition information.
- KidsHealth
Diabetes Center: Diabetes and
Nutrition. Presents
information in English and Spanish
for parents, teens, and kids about carbohydrates,
sugar, eating out, meal plans, and weight
management. Includes a food diary and
recipes.
- FoodData Central.
Ceated and maintained by the US Department of Agriculture this is the major source of food composition data in the United States. It provides the foundation for most food composition databases in the public and private sectors. This database is a service
of the Agricultural
Research Service (ARS).
- Also see the National Diabetes
Education Program (NDEP) bilingual tip sheet, Tips
for Teens with Diabetes: Make
Healthy Food Choices/Consejos Para Jóvenes Con Diabetes: Come Alimentos Saludables (2009).
- Also see the professional resource guides, Nutrition
in Children and Adolescents and Overweight
and Obesity in Children and Adolescents.
Related MCH Digital Library Resources
- Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs professional resource guide, family resource brief, school resource brief
- Community Services Locator: An Online Directory for Finding Community Services for Children and Families professional resource guide
- Health Insurance and Access to Care for Children and Adolescents professional resource guide, family resource brief
- Medications resource brief
- Nutrition in Children and Adolescents professional resource guide, family resource brief, school resource brief
- Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents professional resource guide, family resource brief, school resource brief
- Physical Activity and Children and Adolescents professional resource guide, family resource brief, school resource brief
Diabetes in Children and Adolescents: Professional Resource Guide, 3rd ed.
(December 2009). (Updated: August 2014, January 2025).
Author: Susan Brune Lorenzo,
M.L.S., MCH Digital Library.
Reviewers: Amanda Carlton, R.N., Family for Keeps™ Transition
Care Program, Dream House for Medically Fragile
Children, Inc.; Malcolm Hill, M.D., Pediatrician; Jon Jantz, M.D., Pediatrician;
Tina Lavy, M.S., I.B.C.L.C.,
Sutter
County Women,
Infants and Children Program;
Olivia
K. Pickett,
M.A.,
M.L.S., MCH Digital Library; Virginia
Smith, R.D., M.A., C.D.E.,
Leadership Education
in Adolescent Health program, Indiana University
School of Medicine, Riley
Hospital for Children.
Editor: Ruth Barzel, M.A., MCH Digital Library.