Open AccessComparing Executive Functions in Normal and Diabetic Children in the City of Isfahan
Author(s) -
Niloofar Sadat Shokrekhodaei,
Zahra Yousefi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
social behavior research and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2538-4155
pISSN - 2538-4813
DOI - 10.18502/sbrh.v4i2.4686
Subject(s) - executive functions , diabetes mellitus , cognition , medicine , population , clinical psychology , psychology , psychiatry , environmental health , endocrinology
Background: The emergence of chronic physiologic diseases such as diabetes damages the children's psychological, cognitive, communicational, social and emotional processes. Therefore, the present study was aimed to compare executive functions in normal and diabetic children.
Methods: The research method was cross-sectional. The statistical population included healthy and sick children in 2019 in Isfahan. The statistical population of the study included diabetic children and 150 healthy children who were selected through convenient sampling method. The applied questionnaires were the executive functions. The data from the study were analyzed through t method.
Results: There is a significant difference between diabetic children and healthy ones in the variable of executive functions (p < 0.001). In a way that diabetic children got lower mean scores in executive functions. The mean scores of executive functions of children with diabetes were 233.63 and the mean scores of non-children with diabetes were 192.64.
Conclusion: According to the findings of the present study it can be concluded that diabetes causes the decrease of executive functions due to being chronic and this process emphasizes the necessity of applying child-oriented psychological interventions for these people.