Educational outcomes among children with type 1 diabetes: Whole‐of‐population linked‐data study

• DOI: 10.1111/pedi.13107
• Publication Date: 2020-08-24T23:38:13Z
• Authors: Mumtaz Begum; Catherine Chittle...; Rhiannon Pilkington; Murthy Mittinty; John Lynch; Megan Penno; Lisa Smithers
• Keywords: Numeracy

Background Challenges with type 1 diabetes (T1D) blood glucose management and illness-related school absences potentially influence children's educational outcomes. However, evidence about the impact of T1D on education is mixed. The objectives were to estimate effects outcomes, compare time since diagnosis (recent [≤2 years] 3 10 years long exposure) Methods This whole-of-population study used de-identified, administrative linked-data from South Australian Early Childhood Data Project. was identified hospital ICD-10-AM codes (E10, ranging E101 E109), 2001 2014. Educational outcomes measured in grade 5 by National Assessment Program-Literacy Numeracy (NAPLAN, 2008-2015) for children born 1999 2005. Analyses conducted using augmented inverse probability treatment weighting. Multiple imputations impute missing data. Results Among 61 445 Australia who had undertaken NAPLAN assessments, 162 T1D. There negligible differences without T1D, between recently diagnosed those longer exposure. For example, mean reading score 482.8 ± 78.9 475.5 74.3 other children. average effect 6.8 (95% CI - 6.3-19.9) reflected one-tenth a SD difference Conclusion Children performed similarly literacy numeracy (age ~ 10-years) compared could be due effective management.