Behavioral Medicine
In-home BFST for youth with poorly controlled diabetes shows poor results at follow-up
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, December 26th, 2005
In a recent study, researchers in the United States conducted a study "to examine 6-month follow-up data on the effectiveness of in-home Behavioral Family Systems Therapy (BFST) for adolescents with poorly controlled diabetes, using a pilot and feasibility study. Eighteen adolescents with poorly controlled diabetes received ten 90-min sessions of in-home BFST. Diabetes-related functioning, general family functioning, and health status were assessed at baseline, immediately following treatment and 6-months after the...
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