Lived experiences of type 1 diabetes and disordered eating: Insights for prevention and early intervention in Paediatric care
Authors' conclusion
This study challenges dominant, weight-focused frameworks by revealing how disordered eating in T1D is shaped during paediatric diabetes care. Prevention must be embedded within routine paediatric diabetes care. Findings offer a lived-experience framework to inform more inclusive, psychologically informed paediatric diabetes services.
Study context
- Population
- Adults diagnosed with T1D in childhood who self-identified as having experienced disordered eating, recruited via social media and advocacy networks between January and October 2023participants (aged 18–61, 10 females, 1 male)
- Participants
- 11 adults
- Outcome
- Themes on how disordered eating develops and is maintained in paediatric diabetes care
Methodological detailsretrospective, semi-structured interviews conducted remotely, reflexive thematic analysis following Braun and Clarke's six-phase framework
- Retrospective
- Semi-structured interviews conducted remotely
- Reflexive thematic analysis following Braun and Clarke's six-phase framework
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Analysis generated five themes
- five
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Lived experiences of type 1 diabetes and disordered eating: Insights for prevention and early intervention in Paediatric care. Diabet Med. Published 13 November 2026. doi:10.
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