Association of Metabolic Control With Problem-Solving Skills

Problem solving has been identified as a skill necessary for effective diabetes self-management (1) and as a training paradigm incorporated into diabetes education (2,3). However, relatively little has been reported about problem-solving skills among patients with diabetes. Self-management models describe steps in the problem-solving process that rely on reasoning, conceptualization, planning, mental flexibility, and sequencing/ability to proceed in an ordered fashion. In this study, a sample of adults with type 1 diabetes was examined to assess 1 ) performance on neuropsychological measures of problem solving and related skills relative to normative data and 2 ) the association between metabolic control and problem solving. A total of …